Number Your Days: Living with No Regrets
Life is short, and most of us feel that truth in flashes—at funerals, milestone birthdays, or when a big season ends. In this blog post, I want to share my heart for why I started this blog, tell part of my story, and unpack a powerful idea from Psalm 90: learning to “number our days” so we can gain a heart of wisdom and live without regrets.
Why This Blog Exists
The Courage Cast podcast I started in 2016 was born out of a long season of thinking, wrestling, and facing my own fears about putting myself out there. I didn’t start this because I had it all figured out; I started it because I knew I needed to grow in courage right alongside you.
From day one, I wanted this to be a vulnerable, community-centered space—a group of people who are honest about their fears but still willing to move forward. You don’t have to be a Christian to be here, but you will hear my faith, because following Jesus is central to who I am and how I see the world.
A Little of My Story
I live in Nashville, Tennessee, I’m a husband to Krissy and a dad to three kids, and a mix of faith, creativity, and entrepreneurship has shaped my life. I didn’t grow up in a strongly Christian home; I came to Christ at 23, when I realized there was a hole in my heart I couldn’t fill on my own.
I’ve always loved two things: broadcasting and music. As a kid, I had a homemade “radio station” called Wacko Radio, and later I studied broadcast journalism while spending half my time in the piano rooms writing songs. Over the years, that creative drive turned into businesses and projects—Quietime Music, SpiritFit Music, helping support my wife’s songwriting, building a large doTERRA team, and launching podcasts, and conventions like Walker Stalker Con.
Those ventures taught me how powerful an idea can be when you dare to act on it, but they also exposed my limits, my blind spots, and the cost of certain choices—especially when my involvement with horror content began to negatively affect my wife and daughter. Walking away from the Walker Stalker world was painful and humbling, but it was a decision to guard my family’s hearts and realign my life with what matters most.
The Call to Live with No Regrets
A big theme that keeps surfacing for me is this: I want to live with no regrets, and I want that for you, too. That desire crystallized when I read an article by Australian hospice worker Bronnie Ware, who spent years caring for people in their final weeks. She noticed a pattern in what they regretted, and the number one regret of the dying was this:
“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
That sentence stopped me in my tracks. It’s heartbreaking because it’s so common. Many of us are living out scripts written by other people—family expectations, cultural pressure, fear of disappointing someone—while our true God-given desires sit on the shelf.
This blog is my response to that regret. I want to help you and me build the courage to live the life we’re actually called to live, not the one we feel obligated to perform.
Numbering Your Days: Wisdom from Psalm 90
This longing connects deeply with Psalm 90, a prayer of Moses, who knew what it meant to live a long, complex, and costly life. In verse 12 he prays, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
Numbering our days doesn’t mean obsessing over death; it means living today with the honesty that we won’t be here forever. Earlier in the psalm, life is compared to grass that flourishes in the morning and withers in the evening—beautiful but brief. When we face that reality, real wisdom begins. We start asking deeper questions:
Am I living true to who God made me to be?
Am I spending my limited time on what actually matters?
If my life ended sooner than I’d hoped, would I be at peace with how I’ve invested my days?
If I live another 40 years, I’ll be grateful. But if I found out I only had one year left, I’d want that year to be the most intentional, courageous year of my life. Numbering our days reframes everything; it pulls us out of autopilot and into purpose.
Slaying Fear and Choosing Courage
If we’re honest, the biggest thing that keeps us from that “no regrets” life is not lack of opportunity, but fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of losing comfort, fear of what others will think—these fears quietly dictate our decisions.
In this blog post, I talk about how fear, cynicism, anger, pain, and lies work together to hold us back from our calling. They are not in line with the truth of the gospel or what God says about us in His Word. The courageous life is not the absence of fear; it’s choosing to move forward in faith anyway.
That’s why I’m passionate about building a courageous community:
A place where we’re honest about our struggles.
A place where we learn what God actually says about us.
A place where we encourage each other to take the next brave step, not someday, but now.
Questions to Help You Start
As you think about numbering your days and living with no regrets, here are a few questions I pose in the episode that you can sit with today:
What does it mean for you to live a life that’s true to yourself, not the life others expect of you?
What do you dream of doing, being, or creating—but fear keeps pushing it off to “later”?
Where are you letting fear, cynicism, or old pain make your decisions instead of faith?
My heart for this blog is to walk this out together. I’ll be sharing my own journey, sharing conversations with people who are living courageous lives, and inviting you to interact—not just listen. We’re going after this giant of fear together, trusting a faithful God who loves us, knows our days, and invites us to use them well.