Not everything you do can make you feel better or more fulfilled in the day.
Some of it, however, is done to prevent feeling worse later.
(Ever wonder why procrastination doesn’t actually feel good? It’s the emotional reaction of future regret.)
It has been a bit since I’ve read Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret, but I highly recommend it. As a result, I’ve been able to actually feel a bit better each day by doing the things that don’t quite make me feel fulfilled in and of themselves, but I now acknowledge the power doing it has over the reduced feeling of future regret.
It’s a bit of a game, really. We’re all playing whether we want to or not.
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Garth Beyer is a Certified Cicerone®, Senior Content Specialist at Encompass Technologies, owner of Garth's Brew Bar and a Madison-based freelance writer.
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