A Life With No Regrets

Wellness is an everyday practice. As part of my purpose in this life is to serve and guide you in this practice, through healthy and fulfilling habits, is important for me to make you question yourself constantly so you can reach higher levels of consciousness which will (hopefully) cultivate your mind and enhance wellness from within.

Today, I want us to think about REGRET. Asking ourselves these questions: Am I currently living the life I really desire? Am I doing something today that will take me a step closer to my dream life? Am I finding happiness in the journey towards it?

I want to recall a chapter of “The Everyday Hero Manifesto” by Robin Sharma where he explains the 5 most common regrets that people tend to have on their deathbeds.

Let’s not get ahead of this.

I want to invite you to make a quick exercise. Try to guess at least one regret that you can think is among those 5.

Now look within and see if that regret you thought about is one that you are afraid of having yourself.

My answer to this was: Not doing what I love the most. I would love to know what you came up with, if you want to discuss it, leave it in the comments!

Let’s get to it then!

Regret #1: They wish they had kept greater perspective.

This means not giving our burdens more energy than our blessings, to have the awareness of our thoughts and know that most of them are things that will never happen and being able to replace them for more cheerful ones.

To avoid having this regret, practice daily gratitude or “Opposite Thinking”: replace heavy thoughts for more cheerful ones. The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

Regret #2: They wish they hadn’t worried so much about what other people think.

This is one of the heartbeats behind my purpose as this is the MAIN issue with people pleasers. Hence why my answer to the previous exercise has so much to do with this one. So many dreams get killed just by pleasing others or by the idea that we build in our heads about what others think about us (which most of the time is not true, like we learned in regret #1).

To avoid having this regret, practice doing my “Pleasing Check-In” available in my How to Stop Being a People Pleaser Worksheet before making a decision. A set of questions such as “Who am I pleasing here?”, “Am I pleasing myself or someone else?”. This will help you address the things you’re not doing for pleasing others.

Regret #3: They wish they hadn’t wasted so much time.

Simple: stop wishing you had more time. You already have enough, use it wisely. If you think you don’t have enough time, you are spending it on things that don’t fulfill you.

To avoid having this regret, start by putting in your schedule things that you actually value and give meaning to your soul and make them a PRIORITY.

Regret #4: They wish they had enjoyed the pilgrimage of life more.

To have fun on the journey. How often do we hear or say “life is hard”. Why does it have to be? It is actually simpler than we think. Stop the society’s mindset of having to be in a constant hustle in order to show your worth. Being busy all the time and not making time for fun stuff does not necessarily mean being productive.

To avoid having this regret, start setting boundaries with yourself in order to allow more instances of awe and simplicity by enjoying the small things while you are alive! Learn to live with intention.

Regret #5: They wish they had been more kind and loving.

To find happiness in the journey we must practice love and kindness every day, especially with our loved ones. Our thoughts create our actions, therefore not practicing these virtues harms our most wanted reality.

To avoid having this regret, start by telling someone you love them, how grateful you are with them, help out someone selflessly, reach out to someone in need, be a good listener.

Hope this gives you a lot of insight of where you are today and invite you to make some changes towards a happier and healthier life.

Cheers to not having regrets!