DTH-X-0009
“I want to live a life I won't regret.”
Ask yourself: at the end of your life, what will you wish you'd done? That question cuts through everything. It doesn't require certainty — just honesty about what actually matters versus what you've been conditioned to pursue. Answer it. Then act on the answer.
Your Practice
Write this question at the top of a page: "When I am 80, what will I wish I had done more of? Less of?" Answer honestly — not with ideals but with what your gut actually says. Circle one answer from each list. This week, take one step toward more of the first and one step away from the second.
The Architects
“Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII (George Long translation; Internet Classics Archive, MIT)