EP 186: The Choice Is A Life Of Joy Or A Life of Regret, You Choose - Bronnie Ware
How to live your life free of the expectations of others
Bronnie Ware is the author of the best-selling memoir The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying. It has been read by over a million people worldwide. Bronnie sat by the bedsides of terminally ill people for years, and today teaches us how to ensure we don't create those regrets ourselves. Bronnie's new book Bloom is an amazing read. The pain and incredible challenge Bronnie went through after becoming an international best-selling author has to be read to be believed.
Here's what we discuss in this week's show:
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Bronnie Ware is the author of the best-selling memoir The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying. It has been read by over a million people worldwide. Bronnie sat by the bedsides of terminally ill people for years, and today teaches us how to ensure we don't create those regrets ourselves. Bronnie's new book Bloom is an amazing read. The pain and incredible challenge Bronnie went through after becoming an international best-selling author has to be read to be believed.
Here's what we discuss in this week's show:
- When people ask Bronnie what she does, how does she like to reply?
- Being with people in their final moments of life, you become close emotionally. How does it feel when you become close, but you know in only a few weeks you’ll lose a friend?
- What is Bronnie’s view on time?
- Whilst bedside Bronnie had some very profound conversations with those who were dying, there was "no room for trivia.” Did that have an effect on Bronnie’s own conversations where words are more valued?
- The choice is a life of joy or a life of regret.
- Bronnie stood for a time staring into the mirror, How did Bronnie see the mirror?
- Every day you lose a little more of yourself until one day you look in that mirror and ask “who am I?” and “where have I gone?’
- This song lyric --> "Sitting near you, nothing to say, doesn’t mean I don't care, feelings too strong, words aren’t there." The power of silence when you just sit near someone who is dying and they just want company. What is that like?
- Bronnie’s favourite Johnny Cash song
- Bronnie said “space is medicine” and has learnt to leave space. What does that look like?
- A turning point for Bronnie was when she said, “I’m an artist.” Yet her Dad was a well-known musician never acknowledged it.
- Why the "where" is so important
- What is RA? How bad did it get?
- Is it a privilege for Bronnie to even walk, does Bronnie often consider the joy of a step?
- Did Bronnie want to give up?
- Did Bronnie ever consider herself gritty?
- Bronnie’s patient Grace, 86 years old, who shared a life-changing lesson
- "When living by trust and intuitive guidance life’s signposts become impossible to ignore." What does a signpost look like and what am I looking out for?
- Does Bronnie still trampoline? Why does it help?
The Mojo Radio Show - © Gary Bertwistle & Darren Robertson
Products or companies we discuss are not paid endorsements. They are not sponsored by, nor do we have any professional or affiliate relationship of any kind with any of the companies or products highlighted in the show.... sadly! It’s just stuff we like, think is cool and maybe of interest to you our listeners.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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