Hey guys,in this post, I do write something regarding personal development. This topic came up, and I wanted to jump on because I think it's really important. I don't think it's something we hear a lot about or gets discussed, but I'm titling this Living Without Regrets.
The basis of this article is from an article by Travis Bradbury back about a year and a half ago called Five Decisions You Will Regret Forever. So let me—I’ll do a quick screen share here, and this is kind of good. This is gonna be the topic here: Five Regrets of the Dying. Okay? You want to stop regretting and start dreaming.
But you know:
- "I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself and not to the expectations of others."
- "I wish I hadn't worked so hard." (I'm gonna talk about that more in depth.)
- "I wish I had the courage to express my feelings."
- "I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends."
- And then, "I wish that I had let myself be happier."
And interesting—they were gonna get into this, but how do you live a life without that regret? Well, I'm not gonna propose that I have all the answers—I don't—but I want to say again, at the bottom of this picture, it says, Stop regretting and start dreaming. That's where it really starts. Don't just settle for life. I've been there. The last year and a half, I've spent—made a lot of decisions, good decisions, connecting with the right people—and started living for my dreams and stopped regretting. So they didn't have to look back at—you know, when I'm on my deathbed or whatever—it's like, "Gosh, I wish I would have done this, and I didn't."
So guys, let's move forward with this today. Um, so Five Decisions You’ll Regret Forever, but again, my title here is Living Without Regrets. There are five steps you want to try to avoid. You know, our days are obviously filled with a constant stream of decisions, right? We get—and I say we make like thirty-five thousand thoughts a day or whatever—we have a lot of decisions. You know, most are mundane, but obviously, some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life. And we're going to talk about this a little bit.
You know, buying a new car—you gotta decide if you go for leather seats. Oof, though—you know, you can't afford it. You know, your brain might focus on memories of the wonderful smell, for instance, and the feel of the leather seats in your brother's sports car or whatever, and so you think you should do it. But here's kind of where that—here's the kicker. And I want to bring up a quote by Stephen Covey first, where he said, "I'm not a product of my circumstances. I'm a product of my decisions." And this is gonna dovetail into my topic for Monday morning leadership this past Monday, when I talked about positive attitude because our attitude really drives our decisions.
