In my life there have been many choices I made and I have absolutely no regrets. What about you?
We are going into another new year and despite the fact that this year has been OVERLOADED with difficulties and sadness … the world keeps turning! And unless you have figured out a way to stop the world so you can get off … you’re going to keep carrying on.
I found an interesting article by a guy named Thomas Oppong. He’s kind of like a motivational speaker type and gives people advice to help them Stay Calm and Carry On. He wrote an article titled You Will Regret These Choices in 10 Years and … honestly? If I made those choices I would regret them the next day! It wouldn’t take me 10 years. I’m a quick learner.
According to Mr. Oppong, these are the choices you will regret.
1) Waiting for a Perfect Time
2) Waiting to Be Picked
3) Living Someone Else’s Dream
4) Failing to Try
5) Giving Up Too Soon!
There are 2 quotes I extracted that I really like. I collect quotes and share them.
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” ~ John Quincy Adams
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
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I have lived and made it past the half century mark (50 years). The minister at my church say: “No matter what anybody tells you, when you go past 50 your life is HALF OVER!” How’s that for realistic thinking?
It’s true your life is half over but you are still living and that means each day you wake up … it’s a brand new day. Who knows what you will accomplish … IF YOU TRY!
I won’t have regrets about making the choices this guy listed because they are not choices I would ever make in the first place.
1) Waiting for a Perfect Time ~ Hello! What is a “perfect time”? Yes. Timing is important. Some people say “Timing is everything”. But I don’t think it’s EVERYTHING! Rather, I agree with Bruce Lee’s philosophy. He said “If you love life, don’t waste time, because time is what life is made of.” If I approach my daily life with that kind of attitude there’s no way I’m going to … wait for it! Wait for what? Once the time is gone, I’m not going to get it back!
2) Waiting to Be Picked ~ Uuuhh? Who’s doing the picking? The only time I’m waiting to be picked is when I will be standing in line waiting to be called to enter in through the gates of heaven. LOL.
3) Living Someone Else’s Dream ~ How do you even know someone else’s dream? If you have overbearing dominating parents who insist on making you live their dream, then I can see where this might be a problem for a child. Fortunately, my parents never tried to force me to live up their “dream”. They did do their best to try to make sure that I would be able to pursue my dream.
4) Failing to Try ~ Look at this way. From the time you begin to know yourself, practically everything you do in your life, you have to try to do it first. You have to try to crawl. You have to try to walk. You have to try to eat with a spoon. So what’s the big deal with TRYING? Surely you’re not going to use that lame excuse about being afraid of failure. Are you?
5) Giving Up Too Soon! ~ I love Kenny Rogers. He’s a popular American singer/songwriter and one of the souls we lost during 2020, before they announced the pandemic. {Kenneth Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 — March 20, 2020)} One of my favorite songs that he used to sing was called “The Gambler”. I like that song because of these specific lyrics:
You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em.
Know when to fold ‘em.
Know when to walk away.
And know when to run! …
… the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away
And knowin’ what to keep …
That’s life! It may take some experience and some seasoning. But you need to learn that in most situations in this life … it often boil down to 2 choices. You either hang in there OR recognize when it’s time to give it up.
If you learn this … nine times out of ten, you’ll have a wonderful life. I won’t say that you’ll live a life with absolutely no regrets. But you won’t have any regrets because you made these particular choices, because you didn’t make them.
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