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Your Energy Is the Only Currency That Can Pay the Bill of Regret
It’s just not worth it.
Beating yourself up over a mistake that you can’t change comes with a cost. This kind of regret is expensive and you pay for it by spending energy on shame, guilt and other forms of self-loathing.
Anyone that has been caught in this knows how draining it is.
Don’t confuse regret with remorse
Regret is overthinking/shame/guilt teaming up to bring you down and keep you there. But before moving on to the remedy for this, I think it’s good to distinguish between regret and remorse.
Remorse is feeling bad from realizing some action of yours hurt someone or something else. What you can do to change things is apologize or make some other attempt to mend it. With remorse, there is always something you can do to help heal the situation.
Regret is beating yourself up over something that can’t be changed at all. This is what I felt today and what prompted me to write this.
Breaking promises to myself
Today I woke up late for the fifth day in a row after I promised myself I would get up early to meditate and workout. I haven’t done it once in this last week. There is nothing I can do to…
