Danny was frustrated with his own word choices. The message had to be just right, but he wasn’t feeling the flow. Every time he read it, he changed something and that change created more questions. What should have been a simple email was becoming complicated. Finally he just wrote the email, pressed "send" and decided to let the cards fall where they may.
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Fear is something that holds all of us back from time to time. And after a while the fear that kept us from acting on something, like asking someone a question, or trying a new path, eventually grows into a regret. The regret is placed nicely into our memory bank and every once in a while, pops up in the present to remind us of what might have been. Some regrets are debilitating and can steal away our sense of self-worth, as well as our faith in ourselves and hold us back from new opportunities.
There are two ways to help overcome fear and eliminate regrets. The first is to practice feeling courage in our decisions. Yes, we might fail, but that’s just an outcome and it’s how we learn. The more we control our fear of failing, the more we will succeed and gain from the experience. As Nelson Mandella famously said: “I never lose. Either I win or I learn.”
The other way to overcome regrets is to not create them in the first place. Go for it. Then you know.
We never know until we try is the battle cry of all positive change.
