When making new year's resolutions, let the wisdom of the dying be your guide

Maybe your list of new year's resolutions should look more like your bucket list. Here's a suggestion: let the top five regrets of the dying be your guide for living the next year of your life.

Bronnie Ware worked in hospice for many years and she asked her patients, in the final weeks of their lives, if they had any regrets or would do anything differently. On her blog, she writes about the five most common themes that emerged: 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 didn't work so hard. 3) I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. 4) I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5) I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Read Ware's full blog post HERE. Or order her book HERE.