Here they are, the 11 human regrets:
1. You reach your last day with the brilliant song that your life was meant to sing, still silent within you.
2. You reach your last day without ever having experienced the natural power that inhabits you to do great work and achieve great things.
3. You reach your last day realizing that you never inspired anyone else by the example that you set.
4. You reach your last day full of pain at the realization that you never took any bold risks and so you never recieved any bright rewards.
5. You reach your last day understanding that you missed the opportunityto catch a glimpse of mastery because you bought into the lie that you had to be resigned to mediocrity.
6. You reach your last day and feel heartbroken that you never learned the skill of transforming adversity into victory and lead into gold.
7. You reach your last day regretting that you forgot that work is about being radically helpful to others rather than being helpful only to yourself.
8. You reach your last day with the awareness that you ended up living the life that society trained you to want versus leading the life you truly wanted to have.
9. You reach your last day and awaken to the fact that you never realized your absolute best nor touched the special genius that you were built to become.
10. You reach your last day and discover you could have been a leader and left this world so much better than you found it. But you refused to accept that mission because you were just too scared. And so you failed and wasted a life.
11. You reach your last day feeling disappointed that you didn't leave something behind, a trail of excellence that will live on for years past your life. That your life, was another set of moments thrown away in a second. And that all you did was take, think of yourself when you had the chance to give yourself to the world and enrich our legacy.
Maybe you've been playing victim all this time, blaming everything around for the mess that you're in or maybe you're not in any mess but feel you deserve much better than your present condition. Throughout the years, I came to realize each of us alone creates the lives we get to live. Its through decisions and actions that we end up with our situations.
I ask you to stop making excuses (I know from myself its a bit hard at first, but hey, you'll get the hang of it). Assume total responsibility for the concequences of your actions and step into your best.
May the joy be with you!