Our 5 senses do more than just allow us to see, hear, smell, taste and feel the things, events and people around us.  By allowing us to observe our immediate surroundings, we can see exactly what we have really been thinking, and compare that to what we want to be thinking.

Bonnie Ware, an Australian writer who spent years caring for dying people, asked those nearing death if they had any regrets, and these are the top 3 they shared:

n the 1960s, Stanford professor, Walter Mischel, conducted a series of important psychological studies known as the Marshmallow Experiments, which he published in 1972.  During his experiments, Mischel tested hundreds of children (mostly ages 4 and 5) and revealed what is now understood to be one of the most important characteristics for success in health, […]

Your life purpose is simple: Be the most authentic version of you.

If you are not failing, you are not progressing. Failure is the road to success. Don’t fear it — embrace it! Risk it! Learn from it!

You are the sum of your life experiences, not the sum of your material possessions and accolades. Choose adventure, travel, activity, and relationships over shiny objects and status symbols every time. The former investment will appreciate and enrich your life over time, while the latter will depreciate, collect dust, and be forgotten.

In a culture accentuating external success and achievement, it sometimes helps to re-balance the scales between your “résumé virtues” — achievement of wealth and status — and your “eulogy virtues” — those at the core of your being: kindness, generosity, honesty, integrity, empathy, compassion, courage and devotion, focusing on the quality of your relationships.

Everything becomes possible in your life, when you take responsibility for everything that happens in your life. 

Happiness lies in the here and now.  The active pursuit of our dreams and goals motivates and inspires us to live with passion and purpose, while an attitude of gratitude and present moment consciousness allow us to experience the beauty, love, wonder and joy of today’s life experience which will never be repeated.

Wealth presents itself in many guises, including  love, health and happiness.  Money neither measures wealth nor defines success.  Not to say you can’t have both, wealth and money, but the ultimate goal is always the former.