10 Decisions You WILL Regret Forever – In AM/IM and in Life
A nice post from my LinkedIn feed this morning … these are just as applicable to your AM activities as they are to your entire life.
10 Decisions You Will Regret Forever – In AM/IM and in Life
Adapted from: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141120140223-20017018-10-instinctive-decisions-you-may-regret-forever#ixzz3JnGG2HJL
Perspective is a funny thing. Look forward and the path seems uncertain, the future unpredictable. Look back and all the dots seem to connect… except the dots that mark the choices you didn’t make and the risks you didn’t take.
Here are 10 choices you will someday regret having made:
1. Choosing the pain of regret over the pain of discipline.
The saddest words you can say are, “If I had only…”
Think of all the things you’ve wanted to do but never have. What did you do instead? If you’re like me, you can’t recall. All you know is that time is gone and whatever you did instead wasn’t even worth remembering.
Think about one thing you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn’t work to do… and think about how good you’d be today at that one thing if you had. Think about all the time you wasted and can never get back.
Then, starting today, push yourself to do what you hope to do… so five or 10 years from now you won’t look back with regret. Sure it will be hard. Sure it will be painful.
Choose the pain of discipline. Not the pain of regret.
But it will be a lot less painful than how it will someday feel when you look back on what could have been… but isn’t.
2. Choosing not to be brave.
Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid — in fact, the opposite is true. Courage without thought or meaning is simply recklessness. Brave people aren’t fearless; they’ve simply found something that matters more to them than fear.
Say you’re scared to start a business. Find a reason that means more: creating a better future for your family, wanting to make a real difference, or hoping for a more rewarding and fulfilling life.
Once you find a greater meaning, you also find courage. See fear not as something to shrink from but as something to overcome — because that’s all it is.
3. Choosing not to say, “I will.”
A boss once gave me what I thought was an impossible task. I said, “OK. I’ll try.”
He told me trying didn’t matter — as long as I didn’t quit, I’d finish it. Trying didn’t enter into it. Persistence was all that mattered.
Often we say, “I’ll try,” because that giv ...