Stop replaying what you didn't do. The best time to plant a tree was years ago, but the next best time is now. Dwelling on missed chances doesn't change anything. Focus on what you want and take action today.
The woulda, coulda, shoulda trap. I wish I could have shown up the way I'm showing up now 20 years ago. Well, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is right now. The woulda, coulda, shouldas are not going to do you any good. Shame and regret are invitations that you do not need to accept. Obviously, they are natural responses, human responses, emotional responses to things that are revealed to us, but there's nothing we can do about the past. So any narrative that you're spinning around shame and regret about things that happened to you, bad breaks that you've had, circumstances, whatever, it's not going to do you any good to spin cycles on that. What you have is right now. What's going on right now? What do you want next? And how are you going to engineer luck to get you there?
Stoics Don't Suppress Emotions, They Do This Instead #stoicism #emotionalintelligence #mindset
