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QUESTION: Today is National Restart Day. If you could restart one thing in your life, what would it be?
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A de-stress program from the job & divert that energy to more & earlier exercising
After just polishing off an entire container of Chex Mix, I’m restarting a healthy diet. You know the drill: fruit, vegetables, whole grains, beans and lentils, nuts, lean protein. Not complaining – I’m thankful that I have access to healthy food and have the energy to prepare it.
Nothing. Life is a chain of events that shape us into what we are today, with each event influencing the next. Every decision and experience, triggered a subsequent event that had
an impact on the course of my life. Good or bad, it shaped me into the person I am today. If I
was able to restart one event, the chain would be broken, and the outcome would have been much different.
To have been more vocal during the decision process at 17 after having been accepted at Pepperdine University where my father wanted me to attend. At almost 66 years of age, I do not now, nor never will think “Shoulda, woulda, coulda” as it isn’t productive. I had a good deal of cognitive control over my life and especially do at this point, which is very positive.
My twenties.
I ain’t gonna lie, being twenty in the 70s was a lot more fun than being seventy in the 20s!
Not that I’d do anything differently…. I’d just like to do it all again!
It was a blast!
I cannot choose a time in my life that I’d want to un-do… or do-over, with changes. But if I got zapped and told I had no choice but to start over…………………………….. I hope to pay better attention this time around.
…and mark the trail,
I did already participate in this today: I restarted my car!
High school, but keep all my current memories of everything I learned since then. But I still get my same kids.
So many things I would restart, but that would have to be with the understanding that I would not make the same stupid moves/mistakes. Things are very good, I am happy with my life (loving wife, great children, relatively healthy), so I was able to overcome my own stupidity. To pick one thing, I wish I would have spent more time with my father. We had a very short window where we could have good father/son interactions, and I was that teen that wanted to do stuff on his own (I didn’t know that window was so short). Those couple years, if I could have a restart, would be, well, words cannot describe how I would feel, but if I knew, I would cram so much in.