What would you say to your younger self?

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Hindsight is everything isn't it? Looking back makes us wiser decision makers. To me, it is a powerful learning tool teaching us to speak or act differently next time. It definitely goes in one's favour if positive ongoing changes are made for a top quality life. This is how consequences work! We experience something uncomfortable and as a result we make better choices to keep us in good stead for ten, twenty or thirty years with good physical, mental and emotional well-being. But what about people who do not use hindsight to their advantage, are not tuned into their intuitive radars, or think that perhaps there is lots of time after their working lives to exercise, eat properly and rest? The sad reality is that these individuals are likely to experience significant health problems that take away their independence, filling them with so many regrets. 

Carol is once such lady. She talks to her younger self. You are 30 years old and have your two children at school and now at long last free to go to work again. This is the happiest time of your life, you feel complete with your kids and earning a wage, a great combination. Whatever comes your way in the next twenty years you handle it really well, you are full of energy, fit and lean, always ready to run around the backyard playing soccer with the kids.* *I want to warn you that keeping on with the same hectic pace in the fifties is not as good idea as you think. Your kids are now grown up and you are free to work as much as you want so you take on two jobs working 7 days a week. So you do. Your jobs will take over your life. While you promise yourself special time for exercising and relaxing it never occurs. In your sixties you are overweight, highly stressed and unfit. Be aware that you on the road of having a heart attack and on the brink of dying.* *The outcome is complete reliance on your husband and others to care for you as you wait for a heart transplant. You cannot walk a short distance without a walker. Your feeling of regrets at not looking after your health is huge. So please stop and take action when you turn fifty. Carol, stop working so hard, exercise, eat a healthy diet, take holidays and weekends, have fun with your husband. Life is too short to have big regrets.* 

Unfortunately Carol did have a heart attack. What advice would you tell your younger self? Would it be a positive message or a warning? Cheers and Blessings ....................................................................... 



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Originally posted here: https://steemit.com/writing/@angiemitchell/what-would-you-say-to-your-younger-self