What is Unacceptable for Your Life and the Legacy You Want to Leave Behind?

Here’s how to avoid a life of regret…

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“In life, you get what you tolerate.”

— Mike Ditka

I love this quote because there are so many layers to it, and so many ways you can apply it to life.

Here’s how I’m currently rephrasing it:

“What you accept, you become. What you reject, you avoid.”

Though I’m sure my fellow psychologists will disagree with this interpretation, especially the Freudians.

There’s always more we could do than we have done, which is the source of so many creators’ existential angst.

But there’s another layer to this…

You’ll never be able to do everything you’re capable of doing.

It’s a cold hard fact of life:

We will all die with unfinished work, unaccomplished goals, and unfulfilled desires.

So a life well-lived, the way we arrive at our deathbed without being full of regret, is to prioritize what is worthwhile by doing one thing:

Defining what is unacceptable.

Of all the goals you want to achieve, which ones are unacceptable to have not achieved…