The No Regrets Journey

October 30, 2008

As the end of my One Month to Live journey comes to a close, I look back on this unique experience with mixed emotions. I am partly glad to see the end, yet eager to internalize these concepts even deeper over time. Highlights of my journey include:

Writing my own 5 Wishes and letters to my family
Meeting 3 wonderful ladies at a new One Month to Live small group
Watching dirt bikes ramp across the stage at church

One of the sticking points of this series was the observation that very few people know how to take a complement. According to the Learn Humbly stage of the journey, learning to accept and give compliments is essential to a no regrets life. (I will likely blog about this in the near future, so if this describes you, subscribe to the feed to catch this post when it goes live next week.)

My Take Away

This series has definitely changed the way I think about my life, and the lives of those around me. While I began this journey earlier this year, this six week series has really brought it home and highlighted key points for me. In reflection, I don’t believe this series has changed my daily behavior much. It has, however, changed my outlook on life and reinforced the lessons I have learned from recent life experiences.

If you participated in the One Month to Live Challenge, what did you take away from the experience? Has it changed your life for the better, spurred you to think differently?

Thanks for riding along on this journey with me. I’ll be posting my views on how these principals apply to blogging and online business. I hope you, too, have begun to live a no regrets life.

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Comments

Jamie Simmerman

Hey Wendi!

I admit, I've only read about half of the book during this series. (Too much reading for my Psych class to squeeze in much else.) But what I have read so far has been amazing. I've been flagging passages and thinking, I need to blog that as I read. :D

That is such an amazing commitment for a married couple! It really is the way life should be lived. You never know if you're going to come home at the end of the day or if this is your final day on earth. It sounds really corny and sort of fluffy, but once you get into the series, it really starts to sink and become real.
Jamie Simmerman

Good Morning, Lance :D

Our church is not afraid to do things... well, differently. We frequently have gangs of bikers in the congregation, girls with pink and blue hair sitting beside their grandmothers, and we even had the youth group do hip hop on stage for Easter, complete with backflips off the stage. :)

The motor bikes went along with the pastor's point of our own abilities are about as wimpy as peddling a bicycle uphill. God's power is more like a motor bike. (or something along those lines.) You can listen to the sermon online I think. It's the Live Humbly podcast : http://www.newpointe.org/content.cfm?id=2006.
Wendi Kelly-Life's Little Insp

Jamie,

I didn't start the one month project with you, I came in somewhere in the middle but I just checked out the book in your Amazon list and it looks interesting. I do try to live an extrodinary life with no regrets all the time. My husband and I made that one of our committments to each other when we got married. It's an amazing way to live.

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Lance

Thanks for continuing to share your experiences about this journey you've been on over the past several weeks Jamie. The whole idea of one month to live is powerful when I really think about it - that you took the time to act upon it - even more powerful! While it may not change your life substantially - your outlook, how you view things probably has changed. Again, powerful I'm sure.

And...I'm curious about the dirt bikes...

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