No Reason to Have Regrets, Let’s Bury Negatives and Go!
ByWe all know how things could have been different.
I read about economics and about personality types as just a few of my interests.
I recently read the “PostCatastrophe Economy” by Eric Jans which is the best accounting I ever read on how our economy went from 3% inflation to hyperinflation in the 70’s and again in the 2000’s.
He recalls how in 1971 Nixon repealed the Bretton Woods agreement pegging our dollar to the gold standard and how the Viet Nam War and Johnsons spending programs put our economy into overdrive.
I remember how I depended on wages for a living but houses were appreciating at 25% a year. Why not buy houses? It seemed like the best thing to do.
You can be brilliant when you look back and see how we made our mistakes. We know now that we might have been irresponsible because things were too easy or that in those days as my neighbor would say “the smart money is in real estate”.
I have read several books on the workings of the brain and how our personalities are formed and how they affect our relationships and career choices. I can see now, that if I had known more, I might have done things differently or found ways to work things out.
But that’s not how life happens. We don’t get to look into the future to see how each decision will turn out. We take the best information available which filters through what our personality says will make us happy and we go.
I do a meditation now suggested by John Edwards in “Infinite Quest” where I take an elevator to the top room which is inside my head. This is where the second highest chakra resides and I get out into a white room facing a big sea chest. I open the chest and drop in all my negative thoughts and experiences. Then I close it, pick up the key on the floor and enter my meditation room.
It is my experience that we can beautifully analyze the past, but we can’t change it. We followed economic trends, we made career choices, we made and lost relationships because each decision seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
But today we have a clean slate. There is only now and the future.
Happiness is not dependent on what happened in the past. It is a function of what we think and do now. Economically, the world seems to be starting over and before we are through, there will be a lot more adjustments.
I figured that the average person living to be 84 years old has about 30,000 days. How many do you have left? That’s what is important. I have about 7,500 and I plan to make everyone count. When you die, your regrets are not very important. What you want to remember are the great days and the great experiences and the great people.
I have placed myself in an environment in which I want to live out my time. I live at the beach and can surf everyday and enjoy the sunsets. I like to write and have the opportunity to do that daily. I like to research and learn and that is also part of my daily routine.
Flow is the participation in activities in which you have competence or have practiced and in which you can engage knowing there is a challenge but that it is not overwhelming. Flow activities are between boredom and over whelm. When you have shut out all distractions and engage, you are at some of your happiest moments.
Some neurologists I have quoted in other posts say this is the process of happiness. One said that if you are using your talents for a larger good, you are getting a double pop on positive brain chemicals.
There is no one that doesn’t recognize that the future path of individuals and nations is dependent not only on hard work, but creativity, innovation, positive thinking, and optimism. Reaching our peak performance requires each of those characteristics. Reaching maximum happiness requires each of those characteristics as well.
Today you can get into better health, a positive state of mind, see the glass as half full, see value in community, treat people kindly, be appreciative that you are here, and accept the past while you carve out a great future.
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Read “The PostCastrophe Economy” by Eric Janzen
Read “7 Personality Types” by Elizabeth Puttick, PHD
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