The Consequences Of Missing Out, How Your Failure Can Motivate You

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I read a particular post some time ago on-chain and it sort of surprises me people tend to regret but justify their wrong choices without giving accolades to others people who actually made the right choice.

Firstly, I like to say that we mostly perceive the right choice as the one that eventually yields dividends and one of the reasons why we also think so is because it's not easy to judge the possibility of success without having the enablements to correctly predict the future. A lot of people are careless when it comes to investing and making the right choice about money but the truth is they hardly consider the repercussions of not making the right choice they only consider the challenges that come with making the right choice.

It's true, people hardly want to encounter challenges and that's why taking the easy way is often obtainable

Why is this?

Most people want the easy way out because the difficult way can actually teach them vital lessons. But because we're sentimental people, we feel that life must be easy even if we only truly learn by learning the hard way.

We often underestimate the effort of people who have worked hard and sometimes we feel they're getting too much than they deserve, and one of the reasons why this happens is because of greed, the regret that ensues when we realize we haven't been up and doing. FOMO is a human emotion that shouldn't take over our sense of reasoning.

But can we stop the feeling of missing out?

Sometimes when we've missed out, it's important to never envy people who didn't miss out and the reason is that we cannot measure the work, effort, and sacrifice of these people especially when we realize that we could have not missed out just like them, but we chickened out when we could have been brave.

Some so many people missed out on splinterlands mega millions and up till today, they feel people who invested earlier are getting more than they deserve. Furthermore, there's this aspect of jealousy that comes with missing out, it's resultant of the fact that missing out can be mind-boggling. But this is narrow-minded. The truth is that missing out can be isn't just about the money, but the prospective gains.

It's important to understand that everyone would miss out on one or another opportunity in life, whether it's crypto or real-time opportunities but it's also true that there are opportunities we might miss and they might mar us forever, not just financially but mentally. Mentally in the sense that, missing out blinds us.

There's the aspect of guilt that comes with it, this guilt creeps into our resolves making it easier for us to see the futility in start up something new and different. Sometimes, it's not the opportunities that are flawed, it's our inability to see a bright future in whatever we're prospectively investing.

But how can we mitigate this?

Building a business or building wealth is difficult, some people can stomach the challenge with their hard work and mental fortitude while some others cannot, however it's easier to say the people who succeed above all odds do not deserve everything they eventually got and this is because we do not put into consideration the efforts they've put in because we tend to appreciate results over effort.

Effort is a huge factor in life and sometimes it's the exact preparedness that eventually gets us closer to the element of luck that crowns everything. However, in other not to regret our inactions or ignorance, We should balance the ability to make tough choices with the prospects of rewards or the consequences of failure because we need to attain some specific balance.

This is how we can attain justification when we realize we realized we've missed out and then regrets seemed too nasty to take in.

In life, everyone might not be equally gifted the same opportunity but we can simply not measure the sacrifice of others when we begin to weigh in the rewards because while the result of efforts seems measurable and quantifiable in volumes it's difficult to measure the sacrifice, the time is taken or the effort that was required to achieve a certain result.

This is one of the reasons why missing out on opportunities that could have made us should inspire us because being over to regret might make us jealous. That said, we should be fully accountable to ourselves when we discover we passed off on the opportunities to do better for ourselves, no one is responsible, and this should positively motivate us.

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