Buyers remorse over your life.
We Americans have a hard time of buying exactly what we need and being satisfied with having the bare minimal. As a result, we shop till we drop and sit and pout when the credit card bill payments are over the top. Later on we sit and think that maybe we went to far and should return the items that made us so happy. The regret of buying highly priced items stemming from fear of making the wrong choice, guilt over extravagance, or a suspicion of having been overly influenced by the seller leaves us sitting in the middle of our countless number of bags selecting what can stay and what must go.
We do this in our lives and the choices we make on a daily basis. Often making a decision to live brighter and bolder, to find that brighter and bolder requires long nights and cold shoulders. Knowing all this, we return our dreams for normalcy and leave the best life for the next customer in line ready for the journey. Walking away from the one thing that ignited our passion and when asked what is the reason for the return we explain that it came with heartaches, setbacks, and required a massive amount of time to ensure our success was on the way. Defensive towards hard work and wanting to purchase a decision that did all the work while we stand their gloating. Those decisions are the ones you find in the .99 bin and have no return or no real purpose.
How many times have we return our dreams; slowly sinking in buyers remorse because living our best life came with so much remorse. Where would you be if you actually decided to make that purchase and burn the receipt? Living on the edge and completely fearless for the setbacks and major falls. Deleting the return policy you learned that goes a little something like this: Refunds will be issued in the original form of payment unless a merchandise credit is requested. Merchandise credit receipts are not considered original receipts. Merchandise returned after 30 days will be refunded in the form of a merchandise credit usable on future life purchases.
Psyching your mind to believe that living this life is inappropriate and useless. Developing cognitive dissonance of conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. Knowing this decision is what you need, but the effort it takes is excessive and unfulfilling. Constantly producing a feeling of discomfort leading to an alteration in your beliefs to reduce the discomfort. Using your defense mechanisms to reduce the dissonance and deciding that the decision to return isn’t so bad, that living with the choice you made would have created a worse scenario, that the return is so good that it far outweighed its bad aspects. Instead of working through the situation and understanding that your decision really isn’t so bad, we return the decision and never look back. A dream that never was fulfilled….hopeless!
In life we make choices centered around our wants and needs and when the times get to hard we return the choice and look for an easy way out. Your decisions need to come with a final sale, no return label. This guarantees that we continue on the route and work through the challenges that may arise. Having a buyer’s remorse over your life is basically selling yourself short and devaluing your life. Don’t sell yourself short by talking yourself out of a great success story. Sometimes the hardest decision is the best purchase for your life, so spend according based on the level you want to be. You aren’t returnable and neither should the expected greatness of your life.
mOOd: Burn the receipt and embrace the choice of purchase.
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