Living life without regrets

Music: “Just A Blip” by Andy G. Cohen

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- From wikipedia: "Regret is a negative conscious and emotional emotion to one's personal decision-making, a choice resulting in action or inaction. Regret is related to perceived opportunity."

- Seeing all of this growing up had a profound impact on me as it made me resolve never to have regrets. Obviously, saying is easier than doing it; but over time and years, this has now changed to "if ever there is a doubt in doing something that could cause regret, don't do it and re-think."

- As per episode 6; "don't sweat the small stuffs"; Life is far too short to be spent worrying about things that are beyond our control. Also on the previous episode on Happiness, being able to enjoy both the happiness as well as happy memories together with the unhappiness and unhappy memories in our life's journey is the key to being able to fully experience life.

- Stop comparing yourself, especially to people whom are better of. If you want to compare, compare to people whom are worse off in order to be grateful and thankful. No matter what you do, no matter who you are or where you are, all of us have to walk on our own journeys.

-We've covered failures in general, but to avoid regrets; you should only give up once you've exhausted all options and possibilities. You should not leave any stone unturned that could turn into a "what if" question with regards to missed opportunities and/or actions. 

- Practice forgiveness and letting go. It's a given that there'll be points in our lives that we'll be hurt either by events and/or by the people around us. However; how we deal with that hurt is up to us. Some people stay stuck in bitterness their entire lives and never move beyond the pain. 

- Give up looking and thinking about the “what Ifs” “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”- Steve Jobs "No one wants to die. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” -Steve Jobs