Mystery Gift Box #009 | The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

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October 30, 2022

Hey friends,

Another PhD deadline to chase so a short one this week… a book to read and a notion template to inner-explore.

Almost finish reading the book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware.

As the title suggested, the book is around the five most common regrets that people tend to talk about near the end of their life…

The top five regrets are the key takeaway but the book has different real-life stories to really drive in in each of the regret.. worth a read but here are the top five regrets of the dying:

  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 hadn’t worked so hard

  3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings

  4. I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends

  5. I wish I had let myself be happier

Notion Template — Your Imago Exercise

Our ability to receive and give is greatly influenced by our childhood relationship with our caretakers. The way they treated themselves was a model of giving and receiving. Most of us unconsciously adopted this model for ourselves and continue to live it out in our significant relationships

— Receiving Love by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

I have created a Notion Template around Receiving Love’s Your Imago exercise, which helps you build out an image of your primary caretakers as you remember them from childhood with regard to giving and receiving. You can access it here.

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With love,

Ryan O. 🎮

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