TOP 10 REGRETS

Not travelling enough top regret of our lives

Most people spend more than two hours a week dwelling on their regrets, finds study

    A study has found that there are six things that all of us would love to change in our lives, with the most common cause of remorse being not having travelled enough.
    More than half of those surveyed admitted that they wished they had made a different life choice at some point, like having a different career, living somewhere else or marrying someone else. A fifth of women regretted wasting time with the wrong partner as compared to 10% of men. But a quarter of the 2,000 participants said they did not believe it was possible to live a life without regrets, perhaps explaining why, on average, we spend 19 minutes per day — or more than two hours a week — thinking about things we could have done differently.
    More than a third of them blamed lack of cash for preventing them from fulfilling our dreams, while 25% think loved ones held them back. But 32% admitted that the blame lay with their own lack of courage, according to the research by the British Heart Foundation. “There seems to be a certain air of resignation amongst us that living out our dreams may simply not be possible for a variety of reasons,” Dr Gayle Brewer said.

THE TOP 10 REGRETS WERE: 

1. Not travelling more Losing touch with pals  
2. Not exercising enough 
3. Not saving more money 
4. Taking up smoking  
5. Being lazy at school 
6. Choice of career 
7. Wasting years with the wrong partner  
8. Eating unhealthily 
9. Not asking more about our grandparents’ lives before they died

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