Too many people reach an age in their life when they regret not the things they have done, so much as they cry out for what they have not done.
All too often one of the items at the top end of the "Wish I had done" list are points such as spend more time with my family, visit my parents, go on a trip with my brother or sister, etc. You don't really find yourself saying aloud "I wish I had read another report" or "If only I could have spent another day on work phone calls and follow-ups."
It is a simple enough matter to put some time in your diary and get on and see the people who have importance and meaning in your life, to book time with them or simply to just turn up on a spur of the moment impulse.
If you don't mark out this time with them in the diary it is never going to happen. Rather than neglect these important get-togethers until next year - when you will probably look back and think "If only I had..." instead get on the phone. Send them an email, write them a note and get something in the diary. None of us carry a crystal ball, or know what may happen around the corner, so get on with arranging this today.
Listen to the intuition you already have. Observe the "hunch" you get about calling someone or arranging to get together with them.
One evening I was driving from a place I had been working on the coast, and was heading north to my home when I had the strongest feeling that I should make an effort to break off from my journey to see my parents. It was raining and the traffic was heavy. At the end of a busy day and with a hundred miles ahead of me, I chose to ignore the feeling and drive on. The next day I had a call from my mother to say that my Dad had just that morning suffered a massive heart attack and died suddenly.
I so wish I had listened to the message that had come to me the night before and suggested I make a turn off the highway and take the small roads to their village. I so keenly wish that I had been to see my Dad that night. Do you think that I would not have done anything to spend another few hours with my father? I would have driven across the country, stayed up all night, cancelled everything just to have spent a few more hours with that wonderful man I called my Dad.
So take a few moments to arrange something that can result in an hour or a day or a week together creating memories that can then be with you always.
Just be in the moment and recognise what you do have. Realise what you can create with real time now as opposed to what you might be able to do tomorrow or the next day. Here is the thing about time. It doesn't really exist. There is only the moment that you are in now and you don't really know that tomorrow will come around on the clock.
Pick up that phone, tap on that door, hop in the car and simply arrange to enjoy the time with those you love and with those who love you. You will always have the memories of when you did do something like this, and that will forever be of help to you.