“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do it’s a different kind of life.” –Buckminster Fuller from onlinewellness.com
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I have experienced the truth of this a few times in my life!
Great! Experiencing truth can be wisdom-producing–though sometimes painful too. The cool thing about the truth in this case is that it is usually most apparent after we’ve made the life-transforming decsion. But it can come with regret for not having made the decision sooner.
I made my decsion farily late in life–I’m a slow learner–so I could have a LOT of regrets, but other than attempting to learn from my mistakes mistakes I’m now choosing to focus on my blessings of today rather than my mistakes of yesterday.
Russ
ahhh timing is everything. Why not choose to believe that you made the decision at the right time…sooner may have blown up in your face….just my 2 cents. 🙂
I believe that’s a good way to look at life, Diana. Thank you for the suggestion.
In this case, I could have sold a business I was bored of for a lot of money at or near the top of the dotcom boom and focused on my passion for iinvesting 10 years sooner instead of riding a mortally wounded business into the ground trying to save it. In investing–when done right–10 years can make a HUGE difference in final outcome due to compounding. I could also have helped many more people keep from losing so much of their life savings when the two main crashes came and they panicked and sold out of what they didn’t understand at or near the bottom.
So while I very much agree that what you propose is a wonderful way to look at most things in life, there is just way too much evidence that in this particular case too many people were hurt by my lack of wisdom and by waiting 10 years too long to follow my passion.
I think it would be a grave mistake not to recognise that it was a huge mistake (AKA “learning experience”), learn from it, and move on. And that is wat I’ve attempted to do.
Thank you my good friend for providing me with other possible ways to look at things. I value your friendship, Diana!
Russ
Still who knows how it would have turned out at the time…perhaps you would have lost everything anyway and also lost heart…just saying…
I hear you, my friend, and if my Clients and I hadn’t gotten through the “Great Recession” in remarkably good shape, I’d be very inclied to agree with you. In this case I have the benefit of a decade of hindsight and the Great Recession to thank for not having to guess what would have happened. I whole lot of terrible things did happen in the world economies and finacial sytems and I got to see how I’d deal with such things.
I don’t mean to be trite or argumentative about this. I’d agree with you 99.99% of the time when dealing with the “what ifs”.
There are times when a lesson is simply learned too late. I’m not referring to myself in this situation. I learned late, but not too late. But when an 85 year old loses their life savings or when a drug addict learns the lesson only after taking the mortal overdose, then I feel confident that at least 99% of the time such a lesson was learned too late.
I admire a friend who doesn’t easily acquiese especially when the lesson they are trying to teach is an important one–as yours is. Thank you for making it and standing firm. Such friends are precious and rare. It shows you care, and I greatly appreciate it. Perhaps the lesson that you are trying to teach this slow learner will need to be learned at a later time.
Russ .
I have pondered your comments some more my friend and realize now that a key thing may have changed if I had made a different choice 10 years ago. Me. Perhaps I wouldn’t be as far along on the path to becoming the person I want to be if I had not had such humbling experiences in the most recent 10 years. Thank you for hanging in there with me, Diana. I’m a slow learner and can sure use your help, patience, and wisdom.
Russ
P.S. I wrote this comment after writing the one below.
oh I only make it because it helps feel better about the “I should have made that choice sooner’ situations…doesn’t mean it’s not true though!
;-D! Thank you, Diana.
Russ
Actually it was after aking the comment above it but I think you figured that out already!
Russ
I believe this to my core..
Me too. Thank you for your comment Mimi.
Russ
True and valuable words! The moment we listen to heart and dare to follow it, we live different kind of life. Without fear of what is coming. Russ, this quote just touched the truth I know, but sometimes forget. Thanx for this reminder!
And thank you for being in my life!
Russ
Very true words indeed and something that more people should remember
Thank you, Jo-Anne!
Russ
This is so true!! I must write this quote down for a reminder at times. 🙂 Thank you!
Thank you for your comment!
Russ