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Learning From Regret

Quote of the Week:
“I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.”
- Kevin Costner

When you consider your biggest regrets in life thus far, what comes to mind?

It’s not the most pleasant topic to consider when diving into a newsletter, but I promise you there’s a payoff at the end.

Chances are, whatever came to mind for you just now was a short list of 2 types of regrets:

• Actual Regrets
• Unrealized Regrets

I’m gonna guess that the unrealized regrets weigh heavier on you than the actual regrets.

Translation: statistically, and more so over time, we tend to regret more things that we never did than what we actually did.

Everyone has regrets, it’s impossible not to.

Time has a way of healing many “actual” regrets that we experienced.

Conversely, time has a way of worsening the “unrealized” regrets that never happened.