112: My 3 Biggest Business Regrets

As tough as it is to stomach sometimes, regret can be a helpful catalyst. As Daniel Pink shares in his latest book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, regret is better understood less as a thing and more as a process; one that doesn’t just make us human, it makes us better. 

“By making us feel worse today, regret helps us do better tomorrow,” he says. “Understanding its effects hones our decisions, boosts our performance, and bestows a deeper sense of meaning.” Today I’m sharing three big regrets, or strategic errors, in 11+ years of running my business.

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🌟 3 Key Takeaways from Daniel Pink’s book:

  • Foundation regrets sound like this: If only I’d done the work.

  • Boldness regrets sound like this: If only I’d taken that risk.

  • Moral regrets sound like this: If only I’d done the right thing.

📝 Permission: Forgive yourself and drop the guilt about what you coulda, shoulda, woulda done in your business (thank you SATC for that episode title!). Today is a new day, and you probably had valid reasons at the time for making the decisions you did. Celebrate the wins, too!

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Jenny Blake

Jenny Blake is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people people organize their brain, move beyond burnout and create sustainable careers they love. She is the author of PIVOT: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, September 2016). Jenny left her job in career development at Google in 2011 after five and a half years at the company to launch her first book, Life After College, and has since run her own consulting business in New York City. Find her on Twitter @Jenny_Blake and subscribe to the Pivot Podcast

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