Is there anything that you wish you did yesterday, but you didn’t? If not yesterday, how about last week, month or year? If your answer is no, then you might not need to keep reading on. However, if you are like me and wish you used the opportunities in the past, then you can continue to read.
Some of the most meaningful moments in our lives come when we see the past and regret to not have taken the benefits from countless opportunities that slip off our hands. At those precious moments we tend to look at the past and start to regret about the deficiency of courage to step ahead and take action. Though it may be hard to replicate those moments again, there is usually at least a few useful remains for us all. Besides the lessons that we might learn from heedless moments and write them in a journal, we can also start to take action upon and use those lessons learnt immediately.
Let’s start doing an exercise: Imagine the last important thing that you wished you wanted to do, but you didn’t do it for which you are feeling guilty. Try to write down the fears and the reasons why you didn’t do it and ask yourself whether those are legitimate reasons that are really worth not taking action. If the answer is negative, then try to prioritize the action steps from your side and put that task on your to-do list and depending on its urgency, try to immediately act towards it without hesitation, because the decision of acting has already been taken by you (that is why you are reading the article up to this point, right?).
There may be a lot of things that you regret for, but start to act on only one task first. When you have successfully finished it, then try to repeat the above-mentioned process for another one. In this way, you may not see yourself as a victim of your own choices (and of course, the deficiency of choices), but a person who is not giving up easily just because of a mistake that was done during the course towards the target.
