STOP Letting Regret Kill Your Success!

“We suffer from one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”
-Jim Rohn

We all have things in the past we wish we could go back and change or do differently but if we dwell on it, it will kill all present and future success. Stop focusing on the past about words spoken or not spoken, actions taken or not taken and opportunities you may have passed up. You have to be able to move forward learning from your mistakes or past. People tend to think a missed opportunity is the last opportunity they'll ever get, stop thinking that! I believe opportunity's are in the eye of the beholder. You can be looking at dozens of opportunities every day and not even know it because you're thinking about the past. Life keeps going regardless of your past so you have to wake up every morning striving to be better and do better than you were yesterday. You have to be able to transfer that negative energy of regret, shame and guilt into positive energy that will make a better YOU for the present and future.

Below is short story taken from John C. Maxwell's 'Failing Forward' called "The City of Regret". How many of you visit this city quite often?

I had not really planned to take a trip this year, yet I found myself packing anyway. And off I went, dreading it. I was on another guilt trip.

I booked my reservation on Wish I Had airlines. I didn't check my bags - everyone carries their bags on this airline - and had to drag them for what seemed like miles in the airport. And I could see that people from all over the world were there with me, limping along under the weight of bags they had packed themselves.

I caught a cab to Last Resort Hotel, the driver taking the whole trip backward, looking over his shoulder. And there I found a ballroom where my event would be held: the Annual Pity Party. As I checked in, I saw that all my old colleagues were on the guest list:


The Done Family - Woulda, Coulda, and Shoulda
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Both of the Opportunities - Missed and Lost
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All the Yesterdays - there were too many to count, but all would have sad stories to share
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Shattered Dreams and Broken Promises would be there, too, along with their friends Don't Blame Me and Couldn't help it
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And of course, hours and hours of entertainment would be provided by the renowned storyteller Its Their Fault.

As I prepared to settle in for a really long night, I realized that one person had the power to send all those people home and break up the party: me. All I had to do was return to the present and welcome the new day!!!

In the past I have found myself getting on that flight to the City of Regret. If you have to recognize that it's a trip you book yourself, and you can cancel it at any time - without penalty or cancellation fee. But you are the only one who can.