Live your life saying “I’m glad I did…” and not “I wish I had done…”
Don’t live a life of regrets.
In a recent podcast with Tim Ferriss, Gary Keller explained the concept of the glass and rubber balls, saying that, “Work is like a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back up. But relationships and health are like glass balls. If you drop them, they can be scratched, damaged, or broken.”
Make sure that you’re spending an appropriate amount of quality time with each aspect of life. Take care of your relationships and your physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and financial health. If you do not attend to those regularly, you can lose them or damage them forever.
When you come home from work, make sure you hug your wife or husband and tell them you love them. Make sure you spend time with your children or your pets. Call a friend to see if they can grab dinner. Go on that family vacation.
Life is not all about money and it’s not all about work. Obviously, you need both to provide for your family, but remember what is actually important in life. When you’re on your deathbed, are you really going to care that you made “X” amount of money per year or are you going to remember the shared times with your loved ones? Hopefully it’s the latter.
