042: What would you be glad you did?
Regret can be a really helpful way of reflecting on our lives, but it can also make us feel pretty powerless. Today I'm sharing a brighter reframe to help you set your priorities and flip the script!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. Or a very happy not Thursday to you. I know that you're all pretty divided as some of you listen first thing in the morning, and some of you save the map for when you really need some motivation. So whatever day you're tuning in, I hope you're having a great day so far. I just wanna start the episode by thanking everybody who reached out to me yesterday about how you first heard about the daily pep. I am so happy to have you here and to help you get your day started with a compassionate bang. Now on to today's show. So regret is something we think about from time to time, whether it's looking back at things that have happened recently or imagining ourselves in our eighties nineties and looking back at our lives and how we used our time.
We also think about regret when we're setting goals. We often frame it in terms of thinking about the future and things we wish we had done. Now I think looking at life through the lens of regret can be helpful, but it can also leave us feeling pretty powerless. So today, I wanna offer a helpful reframe. It's a really minor change in language, but I think it's much brighter. It's more exciting, and it also puts you in charge. What if instead of asking yourself what you would regret, you asked yourself what you would be glad you did? What would you be grateful for? What's something that you would love to look back on and think, fuck yes. I did that.
Because it is so easy to look back and think about what you wish you'd done. And it is so easy and tempting to look back at the past with rosy tinted glasses and forget that the choices you made at the time were probably made from a place of giving it your best and doing what you thought was best for you at the time. As you're going about your day to day, just have a bit of a think on what things you'd be really glad you did. Not only is it a brighter way to look at things, I think it can be a really helpful tool to help you figure out what are your priorities right now, what are things that you would love to be working on, and what is really important in your life. So those are my 2 questions for today. What are the things that when you look back, you would be really glad you did? And what would you be really grateful to yourself for? Have a think, see what comes up. And if there's something that surprises you or just comes out of the blue, pay special attention to that because that might be a really important clue and now I'm rhyming not even intentionally so I hope you have a fabulous Thursday. We are nearly at the end of the week and I hope you find something that makes you smile today.
I'll see you back here tomorrow morning as always.
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