10 Things I Wish Someone Told Me 10 Years Ago. At the start of every year, I like to review my goals. I pull out the list of goals I set for myself last January, and then grade myself on how well I did. This year is quite different than past years. Everything changed after Cassie was diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly, nothing was important except her health.
It’s been tough. Although I didn’t do any of the fighting — you have Cassie and her doctors to praise for that — I did get caught up in the ride. Here I am now, happy that 2010 is upon us, wondering what else to write about. I’m glad for how things turned out. I suppose that I’m afraid if I don’t talk about it, the only other thing I can say about 2009 is that life was on pause for a while, so nothing else was accomplished. The other thing about 2009 is that I feel so detached from everything I experienced throughout it.
I think that the dawn of a new decade is an excellent time to reflect upon the last ten years, and figure out what life lessons I’ve managed to learn from them: The Last Post - Penmachine - Derek K. Miller. Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote—the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive. If you knew me at all in real life, you probably heard the news already from another source, but however you found out, consider this a confirmation: I was born on June 30, 1969 in Vancouver, Canada, and I died in Burnaby on May 3, 2011, age 41, of complications from stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer.
We all knew this was coming. That includes my family and friends, and my parents Hilkka and Juergen Karl. My daughters Lauren, age 11, and Marina, who's 13, have known as much as we could tell them since I first found I had cancer. Airdrie Of course it includes my wife Airdrie (née Hislop). We shared some classes, then lost touch. What was at the end Yet there was much more to come. Missing out. 37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old. 6 Things You Might Live To Regret If You Don't Stop Doing Them Now. In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ~ Stefan Zwei And regret will never bring back one missed chance or one ‘if only.’ Don’t wait until you’re overwhelmingly desperate to start making changes…stop doing the wrong things now and create space for the things that will make you happy. Starting today: Make sure you’re not making more excuses than progress One thing that will always get between you and your desires are the stories you tell yourself as to why you can’t do it, have it, be it.
Nothing is hopeless until you say it is. Allow your successes to arrive in installments, if that’s what it takes. If you really want something, stick with it, be persistent; you are more powerful than you know. Stop wasting time and energy When you started your morning did you think of things that needed to be done, but you hadn’t got around to? You’re adding unnecessary stress to your life. Be fearless. Embracing All of Life Instead of Resisting Pain.
“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.” ~Osho As far as I can remember, I have always asked myself questions about the nature of my emotional pain. I felt like a victim of life. I did not wonder about the source of my joy; on the contrary I simply accepted these positive emotions. I went through a phase of denying the negative emotions I experienced, and I thought that being positive, at all costs, would “chase” away my suffering. For many years I attempted to transform a negative emotion into a positive one. I began this journey of looking at the source of my pain. Upon reflecting on the path I had permitted myself to take, to travel to the depths of my past, I uncovered that I had developed an unconscious belief that someone was guilty for inflicting this suffering on me. Emotions—be they uplifting and joyful, or sorrowful and scary—come to us to teach us.
Mark Twain's Advice For A Kick-Ass Life. “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”
You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer. Twain is known for his many – and often funny – quotes. 1. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” If you don’t approve of yourself, of your behaviour and actions then you’ll probably walk around most of the day with a sort of uncomfortable feeling. This can, in a related way, be a big obstacle in personal growth. What you may be bumping into there are success barriers. Or if you make some headway in the direction you want to go you may start to sabotage for yourself. 2. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. 3. 4. 5. 6. And that’s OK. 45 Life Lessons, Written By A 90 Year Old.