UNDOING CAN BE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN DOING

"It is easier to stay out than get out."

Mark Twain 19th century U.S. humorist/writer/lecturer.

What will you do today you'll wish you hadn't done tomorrow?

IT'S ON ME

"Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do."

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist/satirist/social critic

It is overdue acceptance of our mistakes, made worse the longer we wait to acknowledge them.

Take responsibility then get on with the solution.

REGRETTING NEVER OPENED DOORS

"Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden."

T. S. Eliot

Late 19th/20th century American-English poet/playwright

You can't always know which doors open to rose gardens but you will never know if you never open any of them.

Regrets, I've Had A Few

"Maybe all one can do is to hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

20th century American author/dramatist

Meaning, you will regret things with the only question being, what?

Whatever they are one of them shouldn't be that you often could have done something to improve your situation, and didn't.

In your business and personal lives, think, plan, act.

Regrets, I Have A Few . . . But Then Again . . .Too Few To Mention

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

20th century American dramatist

If you really need more than a "top 5" list of things you regret in your career, maybe you're in the wrong job.

What Might Have Been But For Regrets and Fear

"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves--regret for the past and fear for the future."

Fulton Oursler

First half 20th century American playwright

No man's land.

How much might you have accomplished were it not for being in one of these two places, and likely, on occasion, in both at once?

Goals: What Might Have Been

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been."

John Greenleaf Whittier
19th Century Quaker Poet

"Might have been" could mean something tried and failed or as I suspect Mr. Greenleaf was suggesting, something never attempted. Something someone wanted but for whatever reason never enough so to go after it.

This applies to our personal and business lives and we can be equally remiss in both when it comes to going after what we want.

What do you want?