It’s Friday, the weekend is coming up. What are your plans? How about learning something new? Doing something you had been afraid of? Going on an adventure? Truly appreciating the company of your loved ones?

In today’s nugget, published by NPR, Nancy Yucius recounts how she has strived to adhere to her mother’s maxim of living life so you’ll have no regrets — and how it helped her cope with an unexpected colon cancer diagnosis that cut her life expectancy to around half a year.

Read on to learn more!