Live Life Without REGRETS - #BelieveLife

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today we're gonna talk about how you can live life without regrets. As always, guys, as you're watching the clips, if you hear somebody say something that really resonates with you, please leave it in the comments below and put quotes around it so other people can be inspired as well. Also, when you write it down, it's much more likely to stick with yourself too. Enjoy!

The biggest poison in us is regret. It's poison. And I push so hard, so hard, and will, through my vehicle, which isn't meditation, which isn't health and wellness, which isn't nonprofit. My vehicle's business. I can't help it. It's what I love. I love building businesses. I love competing with you. I wanna beat you. I love that game. But through that vehicle, I will always push a lack of regret, an awareness to how good it really is. You're more than welcome to tell me about how bad it is or why you can't because or what, but it's just not true. Because if anybody ever did it, then you can too. Stop making excuses. Stop complaining.

Nobody's listening.

They may pretend they're listening, Everybody listening, the market doesn't care. What you need to do is make one person happy, you. Then you can make everybody else happy. You know why I like making people happy? 'Cause I'm already happy. And so I implore you to take this last little rant and really look at your fucking face and understand, are you doing the things that are putting you in a position to succeed? Not just in the business world, but in life. Because it's super important, because boy, when you're happy in life, Business can roll.

We walk around thinking people look at us as the star in our movie, but they don't. Everybody else is living the same dream. They're walking around in the star of their own movie, and we're just a filmmaker in their movie. So if we stop taking the actions that we think will lead towards success because we think we're worried about what the good opinion of other people will do to us, I got news for you, so listen carefully. I don't get on my soapbox about many things, but I'm getting on it about this guys. Yeah, nobody cares enough about you to bother to give an opinion because they're too busy being worried about what they think you're thinking of them. Failure. Failure is not taking the step. Failure is not picking up the bat and swinging it at life. Failure is getting to the end of this game and regretting what we didn't do. Failure is about saying, what if? Failure is lying on your deathbed thinking, oh well, if I only I could go back and do fill in the blank. You know something, to me, failure Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down when you've fallen. You have to fail by the definition of, oh, I didn't succeed, in order so you can succeed. That's what life is about. It's not about taking it with you at the end. It's not about scorekeeping. I've probably failed more times than I've won, but I keep my average number of tries high. And you know what happens? Guess what? You tap into the, the lesson of history that most people ignore, and that is this: it's the paradox of history. That those that risk the least in life usually end up with the least in life. And just because our brain won't tell us that when we have to pay a mortgage on Friday doesn't mean it isn't true. So get up and get in the game. Who you are right now watching this is as a result of your failures, not your successes. It is when we're tested, when the storm is ripping the branches off our tree, you know, when the, the rain clouds are there and we think we've got nothing left, that's who We are at our best when we show up when we're tested. The strongest trees grow in the strongest winds, not in the best soil. So next time you have an opportunity, next time you start to question whether you should step forward or not— oh, will it be a white square on the chessboard or a dark square? Who cares? Get in the game, swing the bat, be all you can be. Get up. And if anybody says, oh, you're doing that, or oh, you did that, oh, look at you, failed— know this: They're failing in their judgment of you, not in your ability to pick up the bat and swing it again. That's the person you were born to be, my friends, right? That's the person who you are. You were born a miracle. You are good enough. You don't need me to tell you that. You already are. Get out there, get in the game, go embrace it. And if you fall over, pick yourself up, swing the bat again, and let's go play this game of life.

When I, uh, decided to do this, I I first talked to my wife, who is sitting here in the audience, and she had married a relatively stable, goofy, but still relatively stable person working at a Wall Street firm. I worked at a quantitative hedge fund, and this was a hard decision, and I was looking for the right framework in which to make that kind of important decision. And the right framework I found is a regret minimization framework. And that's just a nerdy way of saying that you want to project yourself to age 80 and then think back over your life. And if you're 80, what are the— you want to minimize the number of regrets you have throughout that period of time. I think this is something a lot of people do, maybe subconsciously. They probably, very few people probably name it regret minimization framework because most people are healthier than that. But, but it was a very clear way for me to think about making that kind of life decision. And the way it helped was I thought, okay, if I go do this thing and participate in this thing called the internet that I genuinely believe is going to be a big deal, and if I fail, am I going to regret having tried and failed? And I knew the answer to that was no. But I also knew that if I I didn't try, that I would always regret that. I would always wonder, and it would haunt me, uh, until that, you know, mythical day.

One of the greatest problems in life is that we don't forgive ourselves for the mistakes that we've made. We carry them around and we beat ourselves up about them. But understand this: the person who did those things in your past is not the same person that you are today. In fact, you are a completely different person with different experiences and different knowledge and different wisdom and different insights. The person who did those things that you still regret is not you. It was a younger version of yourself, almost like another person altogether. So let yourself off the hook. It's alright. Everyone makes mistakes.

Whatever's happened has happened, I'm afraid. Deal with it. I don't want to deal with it, Ralph. That was me along my early journey. I have worked in a lot of shoddy jobs, and for a long time I was preventing myself from becoming my greatest version, hanging around with people, not living a lifestyle I'm living right now. But if I think back and say, gosh, actually I shouldn't have done that, I could have done that, I would have done this, what does that change? You see, we often think that if we think longer on a problem, it's going to change it. But thinking doesn't actually change things. Only radical action. So what's helped me along my journey is to say, okay, yeah, a lot of my past isn't the best, but a lot of it is. You see, it's always a matter of what you focus on when dealing with the past. Slow motion, that's like, "Can I get a hello?" A lot of us, we only focus on not being good enough at that period, but right now we're totally different. Okay, so what's helped me is to realize that whatever's happened has happened. My only concern right now is where am I? I'm in nature, baby, and there is only right now.

Then I think the best method to avoid fear or regret at the time of death is while we are alive. Our time, our energy must utilize meaningful way. Serving others, that's I think most profound sort of— way of— or meaning of usefulness. One's own survival, even animals also can do. But for service to others is something unique about human being. I think bondage, right? Mother and child or offspring The bond. The bond between mother and the offspring. Bond, even other animals also have, but they are sort of that kind of closeness feeling, short period. But we human being, because of intelligence, that kind of feeling we can prolong whole our life. Yeah, extend it through our life. So, serving other people, helping other people, It's, I think, very, very appropriate sort of action according our intelligence.

Right.

Or human ability. We have such sort of ability, so to utilize that ability, prasada.

In the most appropriate way.

Most appropriate way is serving other people. Then at the end, you feel no regret. I done I've done my best, some useful, sort of meaningful life now and come, although sorry, sad, but no regret.

So I'm with Jeff Bezos on this one. I think the best way to live your life without regrets is to imagine yourself on your deathbed looking back at your life and looking at the situation that you're in front of right now and asking yourself, am I going to regret not doing this? Am I gonna regret saying no? Am I gonna regret being afraid? Because if you are, then you know you have to go out and do it. For me, that's what saved me. Whenever I'm in a situation that I'm afraid of doing, it's not, don't be afraid, because I'll be afraid. It's okay to be afraid. But the thing that gets me through the fear is that bigger fear of regretting it later on down the line. And being able to make that mental leap inside your head to understand that the short-term thing you're feeling is fear, and you don't just disguise it with a reason. Because there's always a practical reason why you shouldn't do something. There's always a logical reason why you shouldn't do it. And if you can get through that to understand that that's not actually the real reason why I'm not doing it— I could deal with those things, I could fix those problems. The real reason is I'm just afraid. And then if you think about your life at the end of the road, looking back on it— for me, the best way to do it is to work on building that muscle. Where anytime you're afraid of doing something, start building the muscle. At the start, you're going to be really weak, just like anything else. When you start lifting any kind of weight, you're really, really weak. But as soon as you find yourself being afraid of something, try to train yourself to push through it. And so I've told the story about when I was wearing different colored socks because my son Hayden, 7 years old, was wearing different colored socks. Always has to to. And so I wanted to one day wear different colored socks, but I was afraid of what other people would think. And as soon as I recognized I was only not doing it because I was afraid of what people would think, then I had to go out and do it. I had to build that muscle. Or the time where I'm walking on the street and I'm dancing and grooving because I got songs in my ear and I love it and I'm vibing. And then as I get closer to a main intersection, I shrink down and I'm just doing this because now all of a sudden there's people around. Me. And most of the time we shrink down without even noticing. It's so subconscious, it's so natural to shrink down, it's so natural to play the smaller game because you're concerned about what other people think. And as soon as I caught myself saying, wait, why am I, why am I playing the smaller game here? Why am I so afraid? Well, concerned about what are these people going to think if I'm busting out some dance moves? And so as soon as I recognized that I was holding myself back because of the fear of other people's judgments, then I had to go and dance bigger. I had to go and groove it out on the street and dance and build the muscle. And so anytime you catch yourself doing something and the only reason is because you're afraid of it, work on building that muscle. Because the last thing that I want for any of you, and the last thing I want for myself and the people around me, is to be on my deathbed, however old that's I'm going to be looking back on my life, looking back on this moment, and regretting that I played small because I was afraid. Build your muscle. Thank you guys so much for watching. I made this video because Geeta asked me to. So if there's a topic you'd like me to cover in the next edition of Believe Life, leave it down in the comments below and I'll see what I can do. I'd love to know what did you think of this video. What was the clip that inspired you the most? What did you learn from this that you're going to immediately apply somehow to your life or to your business? Leave it in the comments below. I'm going to join in the discussion. I'd also love to know, how do you live life without regrets? What are some of your strategies that maybe haven't been covered in this video yet that you want to share that may help Believe Nation and the people watching as well? Leave it down in the comments and do a good public service. Finally, I want to give a quick shout out to Thelma Saunders. Thelma, thank you so much for picking up a copy with my book, Your One Word, and posting it to Twitter as well. I really, really appreciate the support. So thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, have an amazing day, and I'll see you soon.

I don't think I would change anything because I think it's important to go through life with without any regrets. People have said to me, would you change '98? Would you change the red card against Argentina? Do I wish it hadn't have happened?

Of course.

But if it hadn't have happened, would I have been the player that I am today? Would I have been a strong person on the field and off the field that I am today? Um, so there's nothing Nothing I regret.

Everything happens for a reason. How many times have people told you that and it's really annoying right now? Don't tell me that. Now, why do people say this? Because subconsciously we know it's the truth. What helped me along my journey was to start connecting the dots. I now realize everything that I went through, everything I've gone through has led me up to where I am today. I gotta thank those shoddy jobs, my irresponsible behavior, and it's gonna continue to be very irresponsible, right? It's gonna continue to be very irresponsible. There, there are no saints here, baby. This ain't The Brady Bunch, okay? So you got to have a sense of humor. You got to realize that, okay, everything you are going through is preparing you for the next step. It's what I call coming off your righteous high horse. Now, I share a lot, and it's very introspective. That's why I always say this is what's helped me along my journey. Everybody has to realize nobody has it all figured out. Even though I'm a psychologist, I inspire By millions. I'm still evolving, but I realize if I can realize that it's okay, okay, the past is okay, even if it's really grimy, even if we— even if you— even if you want to put a blindfold on, that's fine. But realize that was meant to happen.

Why?

Because it did. There are no accidents or coincidences in this universe. Everything is in divine order. I accept that. I'm not in resistance to that. Powerful mantra right there.