How do you deal with an irreversible decision?

Fait accompli, what’s done is done.

You can’t change it.

Will there be repercussions?

Absolutely.

For how long?

It depends on the decision you made.

A trivial decision will result in a small, sometimes negligible, repercussion. And then there are those big decisions that can be life-altering.

But again, neither can be undone.

You can, however, learn from decisions you’ve made and wish you could change.

A vital life lesson is not to repeat mistakes or said another way, the poor decisions you’ve made.

So how do you avoid making poor decisions?

Great question.

There’s no perfect answer, but for a start, you can learn from your past, and second, when it comes to big decisions, gather as much information as you can. Both require time. The first requires time to introspect and periodically evaluate your life, and the second requires time to think about how your decision will affect your future. And while you can’t exactly predict your future. After you gather information, you can think probabilistically about how your decisions will play out over your lifetime.

Yes, there will be exceptions to these answers. Treat the exceptions as exceptions and not the rule.

So, if you’ve made bad or poor decisions in the past, then leave them there and look to the future. Life is nothing but decisions made from an endless buffet of choices. And it’s your job to make the best decisions you can, to enable you to live the life you want.

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