"What would you do if you knew you had only 6 months left to live?"

This is a question I ask my delegates on the Goal Setting section of my "Effective Service Manager" training programme. It provokes some interesting answers. Naturally, some people find it difficult to answer because it is hypothetical and also makes them consider things they would prefer not to think about. A common response is to list all the things they would like to do but had never got around to doing. The real question is, how do we know how long we have? It may be hypothetical, but don`t you owe it to yourself to live "Fearlessly" now, today? Rather than waiting for a real "Deadline" to shake you into action?

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision that people gain at the end of their lives, and how we might learn from their wisdom. "When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again."

Here is the first of the top five regrets of the dying, as witnessed by Ware:

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

"This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it."

So my question to you is, if not now, then when?

When are you going to follow your heart, pursue your dream and be who you were destined to be?

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