Regret avoidance

# Chapter 23

Price or pain? The pain is the deep disappointment of regret. Regret that you did not make different choices. Regret that you did not did decide to go that direction or this path. Regret that you chose deep patterns of unhealthy eating and inactivity and the result has made you more unhappy. The pain of regret when you did not spend time with loved ones before they passed on. The regret for having focused only on you and yours rather than change the world. Regret for the legacy you are leaving (or failed to leave) behind for your kids and grandkids and great grands. And there are far more genres of regrets than I could ever list here this morning.

The only way I have read and understand and have learned to escape regret’s grasp is the price of ferocious discipline. At least all my regrets eventually come from a fail on discipline. I did not discipline my mouth, or my mind, or my body or schedule or wants or desires and /viola/ I have regrets popping up like mushrooms on my lawn after too much rain. And I get it, you can already feel your willpower waining at the mere mention of discipline and in so many areas! All areas actually.

Back in my marathoning and ultra-marathoning days, I would often hear runners say that they ran so that they could eat French fries, or some other nonsense like that. So you are disciplined to work out viciously and training hard so that you don’t bear the regret of gaining weight by eating without discipline? Yeah that pretty much sums it up. I didn’t say humans are logical, I said each failure of discipline can foster a regret. Choose your price that you are willing to pay, or the pain you are willing to suffer.