Gratitude Challenge Day #27: No Regrets, Just Growth

Join Hyatt for Day 27 of the Gratitude Challenge as celebrates the insights you can learn from "mistakes."

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Welcome to the bevy podcast on the bevy podcast, we have fun, thoughtful conversations with friends. Pull a seat up to the table. Come chill with us. what's up. It is day number 27 of the gratitude challenge. Yeah. Applause applause applause there. And so today my grateful is for. No regrets. Just growth. So what do I mean by that? So on the today show. There was a therapist who shared an open letter to. Cool. The aging, millennial, 30 somethings full of regrets. I don't think I've ever seen millennial. And. Aging. In 30 somethings quite put together like that. But. I think that we got the message, she had an open letter and I'm going to share one of these things that she shared, or he shared in the open letter. I'm actually not sure who this therapist is, but shout out to you. they're not identified in the post. But it says, dear middle age, millennial. When you were 22. The idea of turning 40 seemed like a foreign concept. You thought you'd have life figured out by the time you turn 30. Now you're past that. And there are still so much uncertainty in, in, in society. Cool things get easier. When you get older, you stop caring. That's what your elders told you. But watching your face, get a little droopier each year at constant backaches and crackles in your joints, the burden of student debt bills and costs of having kids. It's hard not to worry about these things. And I would just add here, not only for millennials, but for anyone. Right. The therapist goes on to say there's a lot to be grateful for as well as important lessons to take into account. And so I'm going to share with just one of those lessons she wrote about here. And less number one. There are no right or wrong decisions. She explains. I tell my patients this all the time, especially when I hear them say things like quote, I made a mistake. But what really matters are the decisions you've already made. You can't backtrack if you're unhappy about your choices, but you can pivot to get closer to where you want to be. Learn to forgive yourself and don't think of the decisions you. Regret as mistakes. Think of them as a Vince that taught you something about yourself. And what you really want in life. I'm going to go back to that. Cause I think that's really important. Think of them as events that taught you something about yourself. And what you really want in life. Also take some time at the end of each day, to reflect on moments, both personal and professional, where you made yourself proud. So. Look. I don't know how this resonates with you. I think it's actually very good and wise insight, which is why I'm sharing it here on my platform. Because oftentimes I think we have, or can have a tendency to see things. In very stark contrast, right or wrong. What I think we overlook and what I think she is right to point out here is that. You have the power? I have the power. To frame the narratives. And assign value and meaning and significance. To the events that occur in our life. Now I want to be clear up And it's not to say that you should be Pollyannaish. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that sometimes. We tend to discount. That power we have. So. Here's to learning, to forgive yourself. Here's to thinking of those events that you have taught yourself to think of as mistakes. Here's to you thinking of those as moments when you learn more about yourself. That that process is lifelong and that's when the real joys of the journey so that's what I have for you today. Please don't forget to send us some love by clicking on the support, the show link. And. Staying in touch with us on social media. Until next time take it easy Peace.