17 Regret

There are no regrets in life, just lessons. Jennifer Aniston I have many reasons to regret the choice to climb Kilimanjaro. The mountain is 19,341feet (5895m) and altitude affects you very early on. The lack of sleep and extreme physical challenge make it feel like you’re in a military training camp […]

No Regrets

25 Oct, 2017 in 17 Regret tagged #conversationsthatmatter / #elainefraserauthor / #kilimanjaro / #mountainclimbing / kinwomen / regrets / women by Elaine Fraser

Regret and Forgiveness and Freedom. Sometimes they’re all rolled into one. This is such a story. I don’t know what to do with Antoine and Patrice’s story. They urge me to spread it widely. To tell everyone about the deep friendship they now share. But it’s a difficult story. One […]

Regret, Forgiveness and Freedom

25 Oct, 2017 in 17 Regret by Kelley

Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter Of course, my children are perfect. Absolutely perfect. Three adult sons any woman would be proud to call her own. But, nonetheless, every now and again (and sometimes more often than that), […]

The Mother of All Regrets

22 Oct, 2017 in 17 Regret by Kelley

“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” Anne Frank Regret has often followed the hallways of things that have been spoken in […]

How Encouragement Changed My Regrets

19 Oct, 2017 in 17 Regret tagged care / collaborative / encouragement / help / love / one another / words by Amanda

Dwelling on sadness makes everyone around us sad but being grateful and looking forward will preserve vitality and joy into old age. The fact is… life is unpredictable. So, if we think even for a moment that we can map it all out, we are kidding ourselves. More importantly though, […]

Preserving Vitality and Joy

18 Oct, 2017 in 17 Regret tagged #regret / joy / lookingback / olderwomen / vitality by Val Heaton

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been – Hillary Clinton My youngest daughter has chronic FOMO (fear of missing out). She hates it when people are at the dinner table before her. She struggles if we […]

On FOMO, indecision and regret

16 Oct, 2017 in 17 Regret by Jodie McCarthy