Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. I hope you're having

lovely days. It is so beautiful outside. It's just making me unbelievably happy.

So I hope that everyone else is experiencing this as well. Today's episode is all about regret, which might seem quite naggy and not with the

happy vibes of today, but I want to talk about how regret can be a really brilliant teacher.

So not only can you learn from regret so that you don't make those same mistakes that you're

regretting again, but it also shows you what's most important to you.

Because the things that we regret the most are the things that probably most oppose and

conflict are core values.

And if you can live a life where you make choices based on essentially

avoiding regret, you will likely live a very happy, fulfilling life that is in line with your

values. I guess it's another way of asking yourself, what would my future self be thankful for?

But in a different frame, if you're trying to avoid regret, you're trying to avoid your future self,

regretting the choices you're making now.

Most of us don't learn from our regrets because they're painful and we don't like thinking about them.

And I'm certainly not suggesting that you constantly berate yourself

for the poor choices that you've made. But what I am suggesting is that you approach them with

self-compassion. Like you made a poor choice, that's okay. You're a human. We all do it. But you can

learn from this. And you owe it to yourself and usually

to somebody else to learn from that. So it's a really good book called The Power of Regret. And

in that book, it's noted that some of the biggest regrets that people face or that people

note are cheating on a partner

or not reaching out to people. And both of these situations result in hurting someone else.

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