THE 5 MOST COMMON DEATHBED REGRETS

Who wants to die with regrets?

OK. Good. You guys can go off and read something else. For the rest – those of you who'd like, without regret, to live until you die, I think I've got something for you. It's a list of the 5 most popular regrets people have on their deathbed. If you go off in a few moments and take care of these 5 things, there's a fair chance that, when your time comes, you'll go out with a smile on your face. 

OK, here they are in reverse order......

#.5. I wish I'd allowed myself to be happier. If you're waiting for something to happen, or someone to do something so that you can be happy, you're buggered. No-one and no-thing can give you happiness. Happiness is all around, in the air we breathe. For you to be happy, you have to say “Yes” to it. It is that simple, and that difficult. Happiness is your natural state: it takes real effort to be Unhappy. Give it up. Unhappiness is not getting you what you want, is it? It's not worth it; let it go

#.4. I wish I'd stayed in touch with my friends. On your deathbed you will get that life, in the main, is mostly about Love and Relationships. Don't wait until it's too late. Do yourself a favour; get it now.

#.3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. A life lived with anything hidden is a Life Inauthentic. If you cannot be authentic with others, they have no hope of connecting with you. You separate and isolate yourself, and there will come a time when you will regret deeply that you did that.

#.2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. You're working hard – for what? To get a lifestyle you can't have because you're so busy working to get it? Oh, you'll get it Someday, will you? Um, don't look now, but someday isn't on any calendar I've seen. My Dad waited 'til someday, but he died before it came.

#.1. I wish I'd led a life true to myself, not chained to what others expected of me. People who want you to be other than your are, are selfish. They're not interested in your happiness; they're obsessed with their own comfort. When you are faced with any situation that slams you up against the mirror of your own mortality, the first thing to scarper off your “Important” list is what other people think of you.

So there. Take care of that lot, and there's a better-than-even chance you'll live and die without regret.