How Regret Hinders Ambition and What You Can Do About It
1. Regret Hinders Ambition
By Christopher Sendig
“Regret is a negative conscious and emotional reaction
to personal past acts and behaviors.”
Wikipedia, Retrieved From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regret
2. Regret
“A feeling of sadness or disappointment about
something that you did or did not do.”
Retrieved from http://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/regret
3. “The question is, what are we going to do with the
rest of our lives to ensure we don’t experience any of
these regrets later on when we’re in the hospital
preparing to say goodbye.”
Retrieved from,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/10/18/the-25-biggest-regrets-
in-life-what-are-yours/
4. Have you ever made a mistake you
thought you would never recover
from, either socially or physically?
He Has…
5. “Anyone who has never made a
mistake has never tried anything
new.”
Albert Einstein
6. What do you do when you make a
mistake?
• You Hide.
• Avoid the problem, person or thing.
7.
8. Youmay bemissing the next opportunity in your life,
spending toomuch timeworrying about the past.
9. Why not make amends
Admit your mistake
Apologize
Don’t let Fear run your life.
Fear of rejection, fear of being let down?
10. “Forgiveness is for the person doing the
forgiving, not the person receiving it.”
By a good friend
• Let go of your regret. Start living your life.
• We all have made mistakes.
• It’s what you learn from the mistakes you have
made that make you who you are.
• We all need to get better at accepting blame,
and moving past regret.
11. Be born again, with a clean slate.
Live Life to the fullest.
• Do the best you can every day
• Carpe Diem