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Making big life decisions with no regrets
- Make sure to spend time thinking about your decisions twice or thrice, but don't let it eat you up.
- Stop undermining your relationships, both romantic and platonic.
- Learn how to seize opportunities. You can't go back in time. Whatever you choose to do, whether study or travel or both, your experiences are your own.
- Lay down your personal values and make decisions based on them. As long as you have a good justification for a decision to be made now, at least you won't regret it later.
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Life's biggest regrets
Regret is a feeling everyone experiences at one point in their life or several. It's a negative emotion that comes from the time we reflect on past decisions and wish we did something different.
Studies show that the most commonly reported regrets involved romance,...
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Causes of regret
Studies show that there are these are the three causes of regret:
- Inaction
- Lost opportunities
- Poor judgment
When we decide to not actively pursue the things that we want to, in retrospect, it will bring enduring regrets of what could have been. There a...
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Life's biggest decisions
We make many decisions in life, often small, but big decisions come up from time to time where their ramifications may linger for years. It's often scary to make a big decision because of what might happen, but it's inevitable.
Certain studies showed the most common life decisions ...
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Have you ever made a decision that you later look back on and regret? This happens when we’re not aware of how we make decisions.
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