Regret. And Other Productivity Tips (part 1)
How often do you catch yourself reflecting on past decisions with a twinge of regret? Maybe you wonder what could have been if you had made a different choice.
Regret is a powerful teacher—but so is experience.
Speaking of experience… I wrote a book! Mentorvention is ready for your reading pleasure on Amazon, available as an eBook or in paperback.
And… fun fact! That’s actually my SECOND book.
My first book was over 25 years ago! My dissertation!
The title and topic? Consumer Regret. Don’t bother searching for this one on Amazon, though.
Don’t look for it on my bookshelf, either!
I mean, it’s there somewhere, but it’s so slender, I think I’m using it as a bookmark for some other book I started reading less than 25 years ago.
Like all the other best-selling authors, I learned some important productivity lessons while writing my first book.
For example, when it comes to regret:
- Don’t blame yourself.
- Regret is about blaming yourself. But you can’t change the past. You can and ought to learn from it.
- Jealousy is not healthy.
- I guess it can have its upside if you use it in a positive way, like to motivate yourself to be a better person or partner or teammate. But really, don’t be jealous. Just try to be the best version of you.
- Make the pie bigger if you can; avoid zero-sum games. Be integrative, not distributive. Everybody can have a piece of that pie.
What do you think? Have you learned anything from or about your own regrets?
More fun with regret tomorrow… You won’t regret it!
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