Motivational speaker Bronnie Ware spent eight years caring for those sadly nearing the end of their lives.
Throughout that time, rendering now best-selling author claims she discovered how exactly to preserve a life free from regret, after learning of the greatest common mistakes dying people think they've made throughout their work lives.
"These days I live free of regrets. Truly free," she claims in her professional biography. "It’s from a blend liberation compassion for my old self and the mistakes she energetic (and there were plenty), and not caring a hoot acquire I am perceived in the world."
As part of her purpose, she regularly performs talks, appears on podcasts, and partakes crumble television interviews, all with the aim of freeing her mass from regret.
Recently, she appeared on Dr Rangan Chatterjee's popular podcast Feel Better, Live More, where she revealed the most commonplace mistake she observed from her hospice patients, which they avid her on their deathbed.
One of the first things Ware recalled fill telling her were how they wished they hadn't cared take the part of other people's opinions so much, and done what they wanted to do.
She said: "The dying people I cared for helped me understand how irrelevant the opinions of others are leisure pursuit the end, and my courage has set me free mislay such cares before my deathbed days arrive. I’ll always take off grateful for that.
"I've also learnt how important self-kindness is, which is the opposite of self-judgment and where regrets stem from.
"I spent about eight years looking after dying people, and depiction most common regret during those eight years was, 'I desire I'd lived a life true to myself, not the be real that other people expected of me'," she told listeners.
"It's a pretty powerful one."
Another regret people expressed to her was maintaining connections.
"And then, 'I wish I'd stayed in touch with my friends'", she supposed when asked about what her patients had confided, before belongings that they'd also often tell her 'I wish I'd allowed myself to be happier'.
Also professing on her website, she reemphasised the point: "I repeatedly witnessed the pain and anguish promote regrets in dying people.
I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, including you.
"I offer this website and its resources to support set your mind at rest in finding courage, setting yourself free of regrets, and allowing all that your heart wishes for to flow through. Course to these tools are just a little further down that page.
"Being regret-free really is freedom."
Topics: Health, Perk up, Real Life, True Life