Consider Your Life From a Vantage Point of Regret. This Can Help You Make Better Decisions.

Are you happy with where and how you’re allocating your time?

Brooke Meredith
5 min readDec 8, 2020
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If today were your last day on earth, how might you spend that time?

Let’s zoom out from such a narrow span and say, what about if you had six months left to live? What might you do differently? How would you live?

And now, how about if you had one year left on this earth?

Or five years remaining to be alive?

Here is the thing: we don’t know how long any of us has. It’s unlikely, though it’s possible, that you might only have one of those timeframes left to live.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs

The way you spend today is how you are spending your life.

Are you happy with where you’ve allotted your time?

Did you put your focus and energy toward things that fulfill you? Towards things that make you feel good…

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