Sunrise at the Grand Canyon

I hope you start the year recharged after a good break. I always use the start of a year to pause and think a little about how I’d like to grow this year. It might seem a bit odd but I find it is very powerful to do this by reflecting on what a nurse, Bronnie Ware, found were the most common regrets uttered by people on their death bed!

Which of the 5 might be a nudge for you to be different in 2012?

I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Pretty powerful stuff and right at the heart of our FED messages.

I will be working on ‘letting myself be happier’. I feel pretty good about how I am with regard to the others but I can do even better in the ‘happier’ stakes. So I’ll be doing even more practice to be at my best happy self more of the time.

Whatever you choose, very best wishes for an even more conscious, rewarding year,

Steve and all the FED team.