Coaching practices for If Someone Stood Up at My Funeral Tomorrow and Told the Truth About How I Actually Treat People I'm Not Sure I'd Like What They'd Have to Say and I Want to Look Honestly at the Distance Between the Person I Want to Be Remembered as and the One I'm Being Right Now
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- If someone stood up at my funeral tomorrow and told the truth about how I actually treat people, I’m not sure I’d like what they’d have to say
- I can’t tell which of my values are truly mine and which I just absorbed from my parents or my culture
- I’m so tangled in managing the urgent stuff of right now that I’ve lost track of what will actually matter
- I want to look back from the very end of my life and ask honestly what I actually did with my time
- My days get eaten by what’s urgent and I never zoom out to ask who I actually want to have been
Practices that may help
- Write your own eulogy first
Draft what you want said about your character at your funeral — then measure the gap against your life now.
The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character - Use the eulogy / future-self lens
Imagine how you’d want to be remembered to reveal the values you’d defend most.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Use the deathbed perspective to clarify what matters
Imagine yourself at the end of your life looking back — and use that perspective to evaluate today’s choices.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind - Write a brief final accounting
Write as if you’re reporting on your life: what did you do with your time?
Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters - The eulogy exercise: working backward from the life you want
Write a brief eulogy for yourself that describes who you were and how you lived — then work backward to what that requires today.
Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical - Reflect on the legacy you are building
Considering how you wish to be remembered connects present actions to a meaning that extends beyond your lifespan.
Meaning-Centered Therapy, Made Practical - Audit whether you are living your life or someone else’s
Identify the places where your choices reflect others’ expectations rather than your own values.
The Regret of the Dying - Write a letter from your future self
Have your 80-year-old self write back about the decision you’re facing now.
The Regret-Minimization Framework - Use mortality as a priority filter
Ask: if I were significantly closer to the end, would I still care about this?
Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters - Filter decisions through "what would future me thank me for?"
Before significant decisions, ask whether your future self will be grateful or resentful.
Future Self Continuity, Made Practical
Related concerns
- End Of Life Perspective
Imagine yourself at the end of your life looking back — and use that perspective to evaluate today’s choices.
Use the deathbed perspective to clarify what matters
- What Would I Care About At End Of Life
Ask: if I were significantly closer to the end, would I still care about this?
Use mortality as a priority filter
- Write Your Own Eulogy Exercise
Draft what you want said about your character at your funeral — then measure the gap against your life now.
Write your own eulogy first
- Deathbed Perspective Exercise
Write as if you’re reporting on your life: what did you do with your time?
Write a brief final accounting
- End Of Life Regrets
Bronnie Ware, an Australian palliative care nurse, documented the most common regrets of dying patients in her book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The themes — especially living others’ expectations, working too hard, suppressing feelings, and neglecting friendships — are consistent with broader research on regret and well-being. The evidence is qualitative and self-reported; treat it as wisdom data, not clinical data.
- Eulogy Exercise
Draft what you want said about your character at your funeral — then measure the gap against your life now.
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