‘Living Life without Regret’
21 Tips for Living Life without Regret by Hilbre Johnson of Transform Life Coaching (www.transformlifecoaching.co), who recently lost a close friend to cancer.
1. Be proactive. Go after life, don’t wait for it to come and find you – it never will.
2. Start and finish each day by saying ‘thank you’. Many people didn’t make it through your day – life is a precious gift.
3. Show compassion. Kindness is free and it makes the world a better place. Always do for others as you would like them to do for you.
4. Set your intention for the day and know what you want to get out of it. If you don’t have any idea of where you are going, how can you get there?
5. Keep active and eat healthily. A flexible and strong body is a young body.
6. Keep learning. A stimulated mind is a young mind.
7. Challenge yourself. Always keep moving out of your comfort zone – it is the only way we grow.
8. Practice mindfulness. It makes each moment a far richer experience when your senses are fully alert.
9. Forget worrying about the future, just plan for it so you can enjoy it when you get there.
10. Make time for those you care about.
11. Always tell those you love how you feel about them. You never want to say ‘if only I had told them…’
12. Make an occasion out of even the smallest and most simple things.
13. It really doesn’t matter what others think. We only realise this as we get older having wasted so much energy on trying to impress them. Who cares!
14. Slow down. We all rush along blindly heading where ever it is we are going and miss all the scenery along the way. Life isn’t just about getting to your destination, it is also about enjoying the journey.
15. Spend more time with nature – we can learn so much by quietly observing how perfectly she goes about her daily activities.
16. When it comes down to it, life is all about the simple things.
17. Make conscious changes, if you don’t life has a way of making them for you and they won’t always be what you want.
18. Find your life purpose.
19. Love unconditionally.
20. Travel more. See more.
21. Life is short and you want to say at the end of it – I lived and loved like there were no tomorrows…
These tips are thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and the DVD release of Restless, starring Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland) and newcomer Henry Hopper (Dennis Hopper’s son), out on 13th Feb.
Directed by Gus Van Sant, Oscar®-nominated director of Milk and Good Will Hunting, the film follows Annabel Cotton, a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.