Psychologists tell us not to postpone joy because it trains the brain to delay contentment.  Small moments of joy rewire resilience.  So, experiencing joy makes us stronger and more resilient.

Trying to appreciate the good things we have in life is best done in small regular doses.

The famous Australian nurses’ study of hospice patients with only a few weeks left to live highlighted what they wished they did differently – in other words, their regrets.

• I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
• I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
• I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
• I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
• I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Imagine, if they didn’t wait until they were dying to express these regrets and possibly do something about them.

Or as George Eliot put it, “It is not too late to be what you might have been.”

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