AP 489: Why It’s OK to Have Regrets + What to Do When You Struggle with Them

About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's a pet peeve of mine when people say they "don't have regrets." While I understand what they mean by that, I think it's too dismissive of the lessons we learn from a life fully lived. In fact, I can name several regrets I have, without hesitation. From the way I handled friends and extracurriculars in and after high school, to my own missteps as an emotionally dysregulated young mother, plus a few more examples, you'll see that I am far from perfect. When regret leads to resentment and shame, it can be more harmful than helpful. What's helpful is learning lessons from our past mistakes, what's harmful is dwelling on our imperfections and making them mean something untrue about our identity. In this episode I walk through some of my regrets using my four step method designed to help you do the same on your own. My hope is that this helps you disentangle your identity from your mistakes, and allows you to move forward in your growth. Finding Me Academy My FREE DSL Training My FREE habits class Full Show Notes Sticky Habit Method Use code PROGRESS for 20% off a 90-day supply of Just Thrive Probiotic and Just Calm at https://justthrivehealth.com/discount/PROGRESS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to About Progress, I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist
0:08.2	who uncovered the truest model to dramatic, belasting, personal growth.
0:13.2	Its progress made practical.
0:16.2	Join us to leave the extremes behind and instead learn how to do something to grow and
0:22.4	ways that stick.
0:26.4	Do you find yourself regretting some failures that you've had with your habits?
0:30.5	What if you found out the truth about how you were set up to fail?
0:34.6	Take my free class to learn more, call the number one reason why women must do habits differently
0:39.5	by going to about progress.com slash habit class.
0:47.2	I want to apologize in advance because I might break into song just a few times in this episode
0:53.6	because I can't cover this topic without this initial song in my mind.
1:00.0	Regrets?
1:01.0	I've had a few.
1:04.0	That was my terrible impersonation of Frank Sinatra, but alas, I'm not allowed to play
1:09.6	the song my way because of royalties.
1:13.3	It would be illegal.
1:14.3	I don't want to get sued, so you got my crummy voice instead.
1:17.9	Today we are going to talk about regrets and I want to dig in to this by first and
1:23.5	admitting that I have a big pet peeve about how I hear people talk about regrets.
1:28.8	This is more just like public kind of people.
1:32.2	As an avid podcast listener, I also love good documentaries and one of my weird things
1:37.2	is I love to study interviews like how an interviewer interviews someone so I can learn
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