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relationship, that same overweight body until now, the day you die.
You read books, but you never applied them. You planned diets, but you
never followed them. You told yourself what you were going to do, psyched
yourself up a thousand times, but you never did it. You started dozens if not
hundreds of life changing escapades and then wilted.
As you lie there in your hospital bed, loved ones cycling in and out over the
course of the day, what do you feel?
Regret? Remorse? Sorrow? What would you give if you could go back to this
moment—the one in which you’re reading this book—and do things
differently? If only….
Dammit, WAKE UP! The regret will course through your body, your mind,
your heart. It’ll be crushing. Unbearable. You’re not sure whether to fear
death or to welcome it, just so it can take you out of this misery.
Here’s the thing: future you is not going to regret a lack of achievement or
the absence of any one thing in your life. The only thing you will regret is not
trying. Not striving. Not pushing through when the going got tough.
Not all mountaineers make the summit, sometimes they turn back, re-tool,
keep coming at it. They’re just never satisfied with standing at the bottom,
hanging out with all the other non-climbers and explaining their lack of
ascent. No, they packed up their tent and moved forward, and they will pass
from this world knowing they gave every ounce of their effort. That they
played full out. They loved the climb.
You won’t regret not making a million dollars, you’ll regret never starting
that business or quitting that lousy job. You won’t regret not marrying a
supermodel, you’ll regret staying in that dead-end relationship when you
knew you could do better. You won’t regret not looking like a bodybuilder,
you’ll regret stopping at the drive thru every night on your way home and
living a lie.
And this will happen to you. You will die. You will go through all of that on
your own, in the quiet solitude of our own dwindling consciousness.
Unless you take the action that’s needed to change, to build the life you
want, the life you can be proud of.