The Top Life Regret of Dying Hospital Patients

The only way to live a life that is true to you is to have a purpose to organize your life around. Where is your bullseye located?

What type of person do you want to become? What type of values do you want to stand for? Which actions do you want to become your habits?

This is the most common regret according to Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse who kept track of dying patients' biggest life regrets.

The gray areas in life usually arise when we haven't decided what we believe.

“I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

It's not easy, but if you take the time to be clear about what you stand for and where you want to go, then the courageous steps will seem simple. Clarity of purpose is everything.

How to go about it:-The Bullseye Method - “If you didn't know where the target was located, you would never fire an arrow and expect to hit the bullseye.”The Bullseye Method ignores the things we typically focus on like tactics, resources, or tools. Instead, it focuses on the identity and location of the bullseye. It forces us to be clear about wha... See more

If you never draw a line in the sand and clarify what is really important to you, then you'll end up doing what's expected of you. When you don't have a clear purpose driving you forward, you default to doing what other people approve of. We're not sure what we really want, and so we do what we think other people want.