Last week we started taking a look at the 5 regrets of the dying.
We started with the most common: Living based on someone else’s expectations instead of being true to yourself.
If you missed part 1, you can find it here.
The second regret is, “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.”
People spend the best hours of their life exchanging time for dollars. All the while rationalizing that it’s temporary. We tell ourselves, “soon it will be different.”
We’ll get that promotion.
We’ll get that raise.
We’ll get that project off our plate.
We’ll close this deal.
And then…
THEN we will be able to focus more on the ones we love.
It’s a delusion. There’s always another promotion to get. Our expenses rise to meet our new income and we need more. One project leads to another. We close the deal and it’s “what have you done for me lately?”
There is no THEN. There is NOW! You’re children will never be this age again. Your opportunity to romance your spouse is never more ripe than right now. This is not a dress rehearsal. We’re not planning and preparing to start life. This is it. We’re living it.
Most of my readers know my passion for teaching people to create leverage so that their financial wellbeing is not dependent on exchanging time for dollars. But regardless of whether you build financial leverage, abandon the attitude that work is what is most important. Reject the rationalization that it’s temporary.
Live.
Love.
Connect.
Do it today.
Bobby Moore- Thanks Scott this was awesome and so true thanks for sharing . It just reinforces why I’m trying to build this business for my family.
Keep going! It’s worth it.
Love It! We have today. Let’s live it!
Amen!
True statement. Something I battle with myself, to be honest. Thanks for sharing
At least you recognize it now, when you’re so young.
Yep. A lot of my effort goes towards creating that leverage in the business which I believe will pay off and allow more time for the important things in life
Lived that life, not a lot of love, was not connected with my Lord, myself or my dreams, waited to do it… the next day. Now I am living, loving, connected, and doing it TODAY.
Big THANKS Scott
Wow Ben! Thanks for being so vulnerable. So glad you recognized it and made a change. Rock solid!
“After examining the philosophies, the theories, and the practiced methods of influencing human behavior, I was shocked to learn the simplicity of that one small fact: You will become what you think about most; your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming – what you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.
It is no longer a success theory; it is a simple but powerful fact. Neither luck nor desire has the slightest thing to do with it. It makes no difference whether we believe it or not. The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.” Shad Helmstetter – “What to Say When You Talk to Yourself”
We need to reprogram our brains to create possibilities we would have never imagined. Thanks Scott.
Agreed.
Thank Scott for sharing this with us. Some time we do not react or realize until some else point it out, even though we a ready know!
Thank you, Scott, for this series and the value you are adding to so many people’s (mine, in particular) lives. I resonated with regret #2 and it reminded me of an Al Franken quote I heard just last week:
“Here’s a line from late Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas that is often quoted at commencements. “No man on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.’” How does he know that? I’ll bet someone on their deathbed said, “I wish I had spent more time at the office in my twenties and thirties, I would have had a much better life.””
I want to do today what others aren’t so I can have tomorrow that which they won’t.
Thanks Hilary!