If You Could Live your life over again what would you do Differently ?

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A small study of 1500 people of varying age groups has been compiled asking Britons what they would do differently if they could live their lives again.

Here are the top 25 ( quite simplistic) answers...out of 50 asked...

1. Save more money
2. Be less wasteful with money
3. Make more effort to stay fit
4. Be better with money generally
5. Travel the world
6. Avoid debt
7. Worry less about small things
8. Work harder at school
9. Explore more of the UK
10. Be more confident / outgoing
11. Enjoy more days out
12. Travel more within Europe
13. Go on more weekend breaks
14. Get out of an unhappy relationship
15. Show those closest to me how much I love them
16. Take more exotic holidays
17. Make more effort to keep in touch
18. Find a better job
19. Find a more worthwhile job
20. Push myself harder in my career
21. Take up more hobbies
22. Take more photographs
23. Marry the RIGHT person
24. Be a better son / daughter
25. Visit immediate family more


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ngs-Britons-differently-live-lives-again.html


So if you were asked the same question what would you say you would do differently, if you had a chance to change things?



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That one was number Number 33 on the list for Brits Ralphy!!

Actually it would be quite interesting for a comparison survey to be asked in several different countries :)
 

Interesting study. As you Holly, wonder how it would differ in different cultures and countries. As for me...I would have worked less and enjoyed life vs trying to save and wait for retirement. It does not always work out.
 
I wish I had worried less about being "different" when I was young. I wish I had put my foot down earlier regarding toxic family. I wish I had not so often defined myself by who I was not, rather that who I was.
 
My first Wife and I had three children.

If I could have my life over, sad to say that I would NOT have any children at all.

I wish that I had met my 3rd and last Wife instead.

Then I would not have had the job of The Taming Of The Shrew!:mad:
 
In one of meanders threads, "It's a matter of Time", one of the several New Yorkers interviewed on the first page (videos) was asked, "If you could live your life over again what would you do differently?" The reply was simply, "Everything". At first I was surprised because she is a successful woman on many levels.

But when I started to think about what I would change in my life I ended up with the same answer…."Everything"….because, despite a good life for the most part, I learned something from every experience. Decisions and choices would all be different based on that wisdom and knowledge I've received. Different doors would open and close. Life would be totally different.

To realize this was very freeing for me with regard to most regrets I've ever had. I can't blame myself for for lacking experience, wisdom, and knowledge ahead of decisions, choices, and actions.
 
I would rather live on another planet, if there is one. Guessing this planet has a remaining life span 50-100 the way it growing now and nobody cares about it.
 
There are a number of things I'd do differently, including facing up to the fact that for some time I had had a problem with alcohol. Wish I'd been more honest with myself and had the courage to do something that I should have done years earlier. I'm fortunate that several years ago I finally sought help and it resulted in a number of positive changes for me.
 
Nothing different, I am who I am because of everything that I did and that happened in my life, the good, the bad and the ugly. Maybe I didn't win but I'm just happy to have been nominated, thank you!
 
Bobw235 said:
There are a number of things I'd do differently, including facing up to the fact that for some time I had had a problem with alcohol. Wish I'd been more honest with myself and had the courage to do something that I should have done years earlier. I'm fortunate that several years ago I finally sought help and it resulted in a number of positive changes for me.
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Good on you Bobw.
I am very pleased for you.:D
 
Lara said:
Good for you Bobw. That's a tough one and you did it!
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Thanks Lara and others who have commented. It was a difficult year or so, but I came out of it fine and am so glad I did it. These days I'll have a rare glass of wine, but that's about it. I learned a lot about myself in the year after I stopped drinking. Interestingly, I sought help from an online community (http://www.smartrecovery.org/) and it was just what I needed at the time. As a result of the change I made, it gave me the energy to take better care of my physical health, made me a more productive employee, made me a more attentive husband and made me happier just being me. I learned how to cope with a stressful job in ways that didn't involve downing several drinks at the end of the day.
 
What's sad for me is how difficult our marriage was at the beginning. Hubby is pure breed Sicilian. The first decades of our marriage he was the dominating one and I was mouse-like. Now as we've aged he's become the quiet deep thinker and I'm the one who is happily outspoken. I wish we could have had this deep love and connection back in our thirties.

I would have skipped human children and found a satisfying career. I would have traveled more and worried less. Oh and dogs, I would have become a dog person far earlier. I didn't meet that special dog until I was almost fifty.
 
I am happy with what I am and have - of course there are things I would change if I had the experience behind me but if you had the experience at twenty that one has at 70 plus, what a lot of adventures we would have missed out on and what a lot of stories that would not be told! The one thing that now I wish I had done was buy a country property so I could have more dogs and cats and other animals but ifI had done that I would be selling it up now because I would not be able to manage it - Alice (dog in avatar) husband and me have enough trouble getting along the walking track now!

If wishes were horses, beggers wald ryde.
 
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