How to Overcome Bad Decisions

Hint: constantly shaming yourself doesn't help.

By the time you’re in the 35+ age bracket, you have definitely made some decisions in life that make you wince when you think about them. Who doesn’t have that ‘man, why did I do that?’ conversation whirring around their head as they lie awake at 3am at this point in their life? And let’s be real, some of these questionable choices may have been real doozies, involving relationships, jobs, business decisions or other generally big life shit that subsequently threw your intended course way off track.

It’s hard not to beat yourself up for these things. It’s hard not to play out the million other things you wish you’d done on a loop in your head over and over.

What can happen is we then wear this bad decision around like it’s our identity, a huge character trait. We can become resentful of where we’re currently at in life, pining for the way things could’ve been if we didn’t make that one bad choice. And we question if we can trust ourselves to make better decisions.

Sisters, I’m here to tell you, that’s a prison. It’s no way to live your life.