Stay True to Yourself

I’m going off the real estate topic for this post. I read an article this morning that was titled in part, “The Number 1 life regret of the dying”. It really hit me this morning for some reason. A caregiver spent 8 years working with people in their last 3-12 weeks of life. In their last days, many of her patients shared with her their regrets. The most common one in her experience was, “I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me”.

I have been struggling for years with “what I want to do with my life”. In 2022, I remember specifically driving in my car and thinking to myself, “I am driving my beautiful new car to my golf club to play a sport I love… I have two beautiful daughters who are doing very well… A son-in-law I love… Lauren was pregnant with Wesley… I have a marriage I only dreamed of… I live in the house of my dreams… My whole life was incredible…” But I wasn’t happy.

How can that be?

But something was off and I needed to figure it out. It took over a year, but I was able to make the changes to my life that have really made a difference. I decided to go a different direction with real estate, focusing just on the immediate surrounding area where I have lived my whole life. I like the homes here and the people. It’s where I am comfortable. I no longer desire to be the biggest and best. I just want to do what I need to do to support my family and truly help people through a complicated time and nothing more. I am striving to be more present in all situations. Enjoy the little moments and live the life I want to live. I guess maybe being a grandparent has helped with some of that perspective.

So I don’t know… maybe think about it a little bit. Are you living the life that YOU want to live? Are you living a life being true to what YOU believe? I sure hope everyone is.