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You Will Regret These Choices in 10 Years

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You Will Regret These Choices in 10 Years

Life is short. Youth is finite. You have every opportunity to make the most of the life you have right now. Your choices today will determine the number of regrets you will have in the next ten years.

The most common regrets you have probably read about are: missed opportunities, not spending time more prudently, accomplishing more, not doing meaningful work, procrastinating, not forming better habits, not mastering another language or skill, getting into bad relationships, or making mistakes in a past relationship.

You Will Regret These Choices in 10 Years

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You Will Regret These Choices in 10 Years

Life is short. Youth is finite. You have every opportunity to make the most of the life you have right now. Your choices today will determine the number of regrets you will have in the next ten years.

The most common regrets you have probably read about are: missed opportunities, not spending time more prudently, accomplishing more, not doing meaningful work, procrastinating, not forming better habits, not mastering another language or skill, getting into bad relationships, or making mistakes in a past relationship.

No Good At Getting Going in Morning

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I can set my alarm clock to an early hour, and get going at an early morning. Yet, I can’t get moving fast in the morning. I am a slow poke, always delaying, and puttering around, as the time moves along on the clock. It’s simply not possible for me to rush and get ready most days.

Barge Canal Backwaters

I like to get up early to go hiking. I don’t like to waste the whole day in bed on the weekends. I have to get to work on time. Yet, to do that I always have to get up extra early in the morning, because I’m just so darn slow.

Breakfast and Gear Everywhere

I set my alarm clock extra early, and get going earlier. Yet, it still takes me 1 1/2 to 2 hours to get going, as I often reset the alarm clock, drink several cups off coffee, take much too long in the shower, and just poke around. I wish was I faster, but I guess there isn’t much I can do about it.

A Fork in the Road

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Lately it seems like I’ve be coming to many a fork in the road. It seems like they come much too quickly and frequently, and I often do not know which one to take. Do you go left or right? Which is the right way to go and which is wrong?

It’s frequently not clear. If there where signs to direct you along the way, the signs have long since disappeared. They’ve been stolen, because others didn’t want you to follow in their path. They wanted you to make up your own decisions, and find your own way.

Goodrich Corners

Not that I ever was much of a fan of road signs. I’ve never been one to follow the directions of others, and often when I see one sign pointing to good and bad, I choose the bad road, just to see what’s down there. The good road, after all wouldn’t let me check out how well my hubs worked.

So that’s where I stand in life.

Being Told to Change

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I must admit I have a personal weakness — I hate to be told to do anything, much less change. While I believe in the importance of change, and always challenging one’s views against the changing backdrop of the world as it may appear today, I have an awful strong resistance to being told to do one thing or another.

Distant

When people tell me something, my first response is either no or that I am morally right. I can be an awful difficult person to bargain with, and sometimes I should take my hat off and put it behind me and realize that I’ve made a mistake. Yet, too often I fail to do that until it’s too late. I hate to be viewed as a total jerk with things, but sometimes that just in my nature.

Closer

I need to learn to accept the changing world, and make sure that I know all the facts before I tell people no. Sometimes I should just be honest and say I need more time to consider the proposition before I tell people what I really think of them.