Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

You know, one thing, my friends, that I think guides a lot of our lives and makes us feel heavy and second-guessing ourselves and full of doubts and has us just feeling even disconnected from our

blessings is this sense of regret that we sometimes live with. We should have done that. We should

have invested over here. We should have taken that job. We should have seized that opportunity.

We should have. Right. This word should. It's one of the

trickiest ones. And in coaching, we always zoom in on this word should. But here's something that

I've learned. And for me, I've learned this from Byron Katie, who is probably my favorite

spiritual teacher. And please check out her interview on the podcast. If you

haven't already, she's one in a million. I hope she lives forever. But what I learned from

Barron Katie is that regret is a thought. Regret isn't a fact. It is a thought in our minds, right? It shows up as, I should have known,

I should have done this, I should have acted sooner. And I wonder if that's really truth

talking. If you knew for sure or if you were ready for that thing, you would have pursued it,

wouldn't you? I love this expression. You didn't miss the boat. You were never meant to

board it. It wasn't your boat. Otherwise, you would be on it, wouldn't you? There's a reason,

either divine or within you or some form of protection as to why you didn't go for that thing.

What if the right opportunities never pass you by? What if they can't? What if they just

unfold when you're actually ready? Not when your ego, who loves to steer the ship,

wishes you are ready. I wonder if most regrets are just fantasies.

Fantasies about the past, imagining a better past.

We don't know what would have happened.

If you took that job, you might have hated it.

You might have gotten bullied there.

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