<ul><li>Acknowledge how you cope with regret: ignoring it makes it more present</li><li>Stop the regrets spiral, until you are ready to face the situation with more clarity</li><li>Revisit the story and identify practical lessons you can learn from it</li><li>Treat yourself like your ideal mentor would</li><li>Ask yourself why you feel regret and work backward to identify the values that are tied up in your feelings</li><li>The cure for anticipating regret isn’t feeling lousy or overthinking, but pursuing solutions, using the wisdom gained through self-reflection.</li></ul>

Turn regret into motivation

<ol><li>Acknowledge how you cope with regret: ignoring it makes it more present;</li><li>Stop the regrets spiral, until you are ready to face the situation with more clarity;</li><li>Revisit the story and identify practical lessons you can learn from it;</li><li>Ask yourself why you feel regret and work backward to identify the values that are tied up in your feelings;</li><li>The cure for anticipating regret isn’t feeling lousy or overthinking, but pursuing solutions, using the wisdom gained through self-reflection.</li></ol>

It’s human nature to linger on feelings of regret. We look back and think that missed opportunities(real or not) could have set us on a different, possibly more rewarding path. Unchecked, these emotions become overwhelming sources of stress and anxiety.

The disease of "What if"

Stop beating yourself up, and turn your emotions into action. Have you ever felt like life would be better if you had taken a different path? If only you had pursued that job, ended that relationship sooner or moved to a new city, everything would be just perfect. Nonsense, of course.

The disease of "What if"

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