Don’t ruin a good today because of a bad yesterday.” — Unknown
Every day is a new day to start all over, but letting the mistakes and regrets of yesterday remain in your mind can truly ruin your today.
Living in regrets is killing the beauty of the new day as well as the opportunities that come with the new day.
These are ten ways to stop living in regrets:
1. First, you must let in forgiveness. If it was your mistake, forgive yourself, and if it was the mistake of someone else, you ought to forgive them, for the sake of your peace. Forgiveness is the best tool for stop living in regrets.
2. You must understand that regret is only a waste of time. There’s no benefit you’d get from regretting. Attaching yourself to the emotions that come with regret will only leave you at a particular spot.
3. Learn from the mistake. The best thing you can do about a situation you regret is to learn from it. Being sad and unhappy wouldn’t do you any good; rather, you should learn from the experience that negative situation brought you.
4. If you can, see the positives… If you can get a positive from that situation, then you are one step ahead. If you feel there’s no positive, the fact you are alive is the best positive there is. The fact you have life means you have hope.
5. Time and patience heal everything; just give it a chance.
6. Try to replace that sad feeling and feelings of regret with something positive.
7. Make a conscious effort to fight regret. Regret is a battle that must be fought with all your strength. So whenever those negative thoughts of regrets come up, push them away.
8. Be proactive and start thinking of the next line of action. Stop being stuck in that ugly situation.
9. Give a chance to happiness, passion, love, hope and self-belief. Because at the end of the day, any time spent regretting is a wasted time.
Stop living in regrets and start living your life. You have one life to live; why waste it?
Source:Elcrema
