Let’s talk about doing stuff wrong. Hands up if you’ve EVER made a wrong choice or a bad decision? Hmmm, I can see a lot of hands going up here (honestly, I can). I put both my hands up, and my feet! Sooooo many times. But hey, I don’t regret it (even the costly ones), but I do recognise that feeling of “oooohhhh sh!t, what have I done??”
We’ve all been there and realised we’ve made a boo-boo of the highest order. We’ve misused our time, our money, our energy, our intentions. We’ve backed the wrong horse and it has created a real dilemma. But it’s about owning this and stepping up to reclaim the situation and deal with it! Not ignore it. No, deal with!
In this week's podcast I’ll talk about regret, calculated risks, damage limitation and the sunk cost fallacy. I’ll also highlight the chaos of emotions we feel from bad choices; anger, guilt, frustration, annoyance, sadness, and despair. And it’s okay to stay in this place for a short while as emotions need to play out, but you CANNOT stay there. Let’s get you back on track.
I’ve give you a viewpoint on a few examples and then I’ll highlight some key actions that you must take to get yourself out of harm's way, because the more you sit and don’t act, the more you’ll get deeper and deeper into stress, regret and despair. The best thing you can do in these situations, as always, is take agency and own yourself. We are flawed human beings, no one is perfect, period. So as soon as we recognise that life isn’t a series of great choices and best decisions then the sooner we can roll with those punches and get back up when we go down.
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Gen xoxo