How To Avoid Your Biggest Regrets When You Hit 90

Your best experiences will be what you have paid attention to in your life

Claudia Brose
5 min readJun 28, 2022
Photo © Harli Marten on Unsplash

You and I and about everybody else suffer from a permanent sensory overload, information overflow, and digital media madness.

Our consumer goods frenzy distracts us from consciously perceiving ourselves and our surroundings. Influenced by this, we do not take the time to look closer or think longer.

How do these distractions ruin your life?

  • We react instead of weighing situations first.
  • We make hasty decisions instead of questioning.
  • We don’t care because we are rushed.
  • We forget what’s important to us because we’re too busy thinking about our busyness.
  • We go on autopilot because we can’t move forward otherwise.
  • We think short-term instead of considering long-term consequences.
  • We feel doing nothing is a waste of time.
  • We feel pushed, rushed, and robbed of our precious time.
  • We fight on several fronts at the same time and make no progress on any.
  • We are being lived instead of living. Our lives feel like someone else is sitting in the…

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Claudia Brose

Writer, Event-Creator, Marketing Professional turned Rebel against a rushed world | Japan mad | Cyclist | Get my Newsletter Un-Rush claudiabrose.substack.com