How To Escape Your 40s Without Regrets
Five strategies to avoid disastrous decisions
In February of 2002, while chowing down on lobster rolls and speed-sipping vicious mixed drinks at a divey New York City bar, I toasted to an unofficial milestone.
At just over thirty years old, I had joined the ranks of responsible adults, defined loosely as earning enough disposable income to afford nights out at trendy, overpriced bars.
At the time, however, I hadn’t yet recognized that my twenties had been disastrous in every way that mattered, a passenger on life’s journey instead of the driver, slogging through a career I despised, passing up on relationships to avoid rejection, and allowing social and societal pressures to override what I wanted out of life.
That type of decision-making leads to choices that turn into regrets later in life.
Why did I pass up that meaningful relationship?
Why did I stick with a dead-end career when other options were available?
Anxious to course-correct, I took two big swings at life. One of them sent me to the precipice of bankruptcy, while the other resulted in a relationship now pushing twenty years. Today, I couldn’t be happier while peers of mine live with regrets, harping over decisions they wish they…
