How To Live a Life of Regret

A satirical, anti-self-help monologue (YouTube video) presenting a nine-step 'guide' that deliberately instructs harmful behaviors to guarantee future regret. The speaker lists nine ironic steps: master procrastination; constantly start new projects and never finish them; stay perpetually in research mode; avoid discomfort and challenges; avoid risks; overthink everything; obsess over negative news and others; become a people-pleaser; and wait for someone else to fix your life. It closes with a creator call-to-action to subscribe.
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Have you ever reflected about how you'd feel if you were on your deathbed? Would you feel satisfied, disappointed, proud or filled with regret? Well, however you feel. Here's my nine step guide on how to effortlessly live a life full of regret. Step 1 Master procrastination. Every day, constantly put things off as late as possible. Better still, until tomorrow. This will ensure you stay in a cycle, giving yourself hope and then not actually doing anything. No matter how bad you feel at the end of the day, you. You can turn it around by lying in bed telling yourself how productive you're going to be tomorrow. That'll make you feel better. Step 2. Constantly start new things. You know what you should be doing, but you like chasing the next new thing. Shiny Object syndrome is exciting, right? Don't let anything stop you from following this feeling. Keep on chasing. At the first hint of boredom or difficulty. Take this as your sign to change and don't stick to anything. This will help you build a huge list of things you start and never finish. And including meaningful activities that could have made you really happy. But we don't want that, do we? Step 3. Stay in research mode. Look, let's be honest. Most of your research these days is procrastination disguised as productivity. But that's okay. We don't want you to be productive. We only want you to feel productive. You'll feel good in the moment, like you're doing useful work. You'll be well read on the topic, be good at quizzes and be able to sound like an expert at dinner parties. And that's the most important thing, right? Only later you'll realize that you haven't done anything tangible or meaningful. But it's too late by then. The perfect scenario for maximum regret. Step 4. Avoid discomfort and anything challenging. We all know that any kind of personal growth, mentally or physically, requires some short term discomfort. And growth will mean feeling good about yourself, which you definitely don't want. So always take the easy way out. If you said you'd go to the gym but feel like it'll be too much effort, leave it. If you've got an idea you want to explore or you want to start a new business, don't bother. There's too much to do. Watch more self development content just like this one from your bed, you'll feel motivated and in the safety of your warm and comfy duvet. Step five. Avoid all risks. If something feels risky, don't do it. Never do it. Remind yourself about every person you know or you've read about who's Lost it all. Remind yourself that the only way to make a decision is when you have 100% certainty of the outcome. When a perfect opportunity drops on your lap with crystal clear instructions about exactly what to do. Don't. Don't apply for the job unless you're definitely going to get it. Don't start a business unless you're certain it's going to be successful. Always wait for the stars to align now, because you know deep down this will never happen. This will ensure you never do anything you'd like to do, which will give you plenty of things to regret in the future. Step 6 Overthink everything Think of this step like training to be better at the previous step. Avoiding risks. The more you overthink, the more powerful and skilled you become at finding all of the risks and all of the ways anything you touch will fail. You'll be so good at it, you'll even come up with ways that don't even exist. So think of this like a backstop to ensure you never try anything. You never gain any new experiences or new skill sets. As a bonus, you get to keep your mind busy and in a weird way, it will help you feel productive. You'll be exhausted by the end of the day and you'll just want to come home and lie in your comfy bed where it's warm and safe. Obsess about negative news and other people. Involving yourself in news and other people's business is a perfect distraction from to dealing with your own life. It's one of the most effective ways of procrastinating around what you really want to do. Because there's an infinite source of news and people with problems. You'll feel really productive at times and before you know it, you won't have any time or energy to work on the things that really matter to you. And this will help you build a backlog of things to regret in the future. Step 8 Become a people pleasing machine. Turn all of your attention to seeking other people's approval blindly. Listen to people who tell you what you should do with your life. This will help you become a regret filled puppet. You'll be so far gone by the end of your life, you won't feel like you own a bone in your body. Step 9 wait for someone to fix your situation. Tell yourself that someone is coming to save you so it's not worth your effort to do anything now. They're going to fix all of your problems and if they don't, it's their fault, not yours. This mindset will take all of the burden from you. You'll feel lighter today. You just have to do the same thing tomorrow. And if you can keep this up over a long enough period, you can. You'll arrive at your deathbed guaranteed to have a life full of regret. So I hope you found this tutorial useful. If you want more tutorials like this, consider subscribing.
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