Taken last Saturday on the Lancashire coast – click for a larger view

Alex Batchelor, Chairman of The Marketing Society, has rumbled me! As part of adding the 25th five star review of the book on Amazon – please add your review; you don’t need to buy a book to add a review, you just need an Amazon account – he writes that “FED (Future Engage Deliver) is a genuinely great tool…. for every leadership situation. But I suspect that Steve really wants people to use FED to make their lives better, rather than just read about it!”

He’s right! We do want to help you be a more effective leader but much more we want to do what we can to help you live a fuller life, at work and at home. This is why this week’s message is “please please avoid these 5 major life regrets which ring so strongly with FED messages.

They have been the ones most heard by Bronnie Ware who has spent years nursing the dying. The final regrets she’s most heard are:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Which regrets might you be headed for when your sun sets?! What changes can you make to avoid them?

I’ve printed off Bronnie’s page on these regrets and it’s gone in my notebook so I can check how I’m doing now and again. Print them off. Talk to your support team about them. Make some decisions now. Have a good week – and beyond! Steve…