{"id":1115,"date":"2009-11-04T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:42:36","slug":"day-10-regrets-ive-had-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/day-10-regrets-ive-had-a-few\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10: Regrets, I've had a few"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading up to Thanksgiving, each day I will blog about what I\u2019m doing to be more grateful. I invite you to join me, and to share your thoughts, observations, suggestions and ideas.<\/em>
\nDay 10: Instead of regretting the past, being grateful for the present<\/strong>
\nThis week I’m blogging about the reasons I’m not as grateful as I know I should be — I kicked off the series of gratitude stoppers here<\/a>.
\nBesides spending energy wanting what I don’t have<\/a>, and being frustrated by life’s annoyances<\/a>, another thing that distracts me from gratitude is regret.
\nWith the benefit of hindsight, my life is peppered with events I wish I could do over. Mostly they’re times when I haven’t treated people as well as they deserved.
\nIt’s easy for me to invest a lot of time turning those events over and over in my mind and beating myself up for them. I would like to reclaim some of that time and energy to redirect it into gratitude.
\nDoes that mean giving myself a pass for the mistakes I’ve made? Absolutely not.
\nInstead, I’m looking for ways to learn from those experiences:<\/p>\n