This document discusses how regret can hinder ambition and discusses ways to overcome regret. It defines regret as a negative reaction to past acts and behaviors. It suggests that people often try to hide from or avoid problems caused by mistakes instead of making amends. The document advises readers to admit mistakes, apologize, and not let fear control their lives. It encourages letting go of regret, accepting responsibility for mistakes, and living life to the fullest each day.

1. Regret Hinders Ambition
“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…

6. What do you do when you make a
mistake?
• You Hide.
• Avoid the problem, person or thing.

8. You may be missing the next
opportunity in your life if you are
spending too much time worrying
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.

12. You are not alone.

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