How to Let Go of Regrets in the New Year So that You Can Be Happy

Are you, like many of us, hoping to let go of regrets in the New Year?

You know the regrets I am talking about — the ones that give you a pit in your stomach when you think about them. The regrets about choices that you did or didn’t make.

Regrets can be hard to live with. Regrets make you think about the way your life could have been if only you had gone a different direction. And, unfortunately, regrets can keep us mired in the past instead of living in the now and seeing the potential of the future.

Learning how to let go of regrets is the best thing that you can do to help build the life you want.

Here are 5 ways to let go of regrets in the New Year so that you can look ahead to the potential of your life instead of being stuck in the past.

#1 — Identify them.

For many of us, we have more than one regret and those regrets are rolling around in our brain, doing nothing but causing us damage.

I am a big believer in getting things out of your head and onto paper. They say that thoughts are 4x more destructive left in your head than they are when they are out in the world. Therefore, I encourage you to sit down with a pad of paper and write out your regrets. It might…