{"id":1924,"date":"2011-07-10T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2013-08-28T03:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:27:50","slug":"whats-your-biggest-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/2011\/07\/whats-your-biggest-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Your Biggest Regret?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is time for Sunday’s Thought of the Week<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

I have been someone who has always tried to live my life without regret<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Regret to me is the most horrible emotion I can ever feel. Regret tells me that I have not lived my life to the fullest<\/strong>. It is the one emotion that causes me the most amount of pain and takes me a long time to forgive myself for.<\/p>\n

Wayne Gretsky says<\/p>\n

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you believe something with all your heart, you must find the courage to follow this otherwise you will live regrets for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n

So today’s thought is:<\/p>\n

What is one shot in your life you didn’t take? What opportunity did you miss because of it and how has it caused you regret?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For me, there are several regrets, but I think the biggest shot I didn’t take was a result of my self-doubt and insecurities. I am seeing the result now of what could have happened to me if I had the courage to follow my dream and belief. The couple of years I wasted causes me a sharp pain of regret.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Missed<\/a>

Missed opportunities<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2007, I sat in my living room and wrote down some ideas about writing a book on how to travel the world<\/a>, and having a blog and other websites to go along with it. A massive door of opportunity opened up for me that day and I didn\u2019t take it<\/strong>. I didn’t even try. I just thought, due to underlying fear and doubt, that I couldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

I closed the door on my dreams without even first researching to discover what I could do and how I could do it. My excuse was that Lonely Planet had the market and how could I ever compete with that? Who would ever want to read my stories anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>It took me until 2010 before I got my act together and started y Travel Blog<\/strong>, and look how quickly we had success. If only I started it back in 2007, I can only imagine, with pain, just where we would be sitting now. Hardly anyone was travel blogging back then.<\/p>\n

All we can do is learn.<\/h3>\n

I’ve learned now that the best thing I can do when I have an idea that I believe in and am passionate about is to act on it<\/strong>. Forget my fears, forget my insecurities and just act.<\/p>\n

I may win, I may lose but knowing this with certainty will make me feel so much better than the pain that\u00a0comes\u00a0with regret and never\u00a0knowing.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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