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Lifetime Regrets
  • Introduction
  • As a Teen
  • As a Parent
  • Relationships
  • Lifestyles
  • Financials
  • Analyze Regrets
Introduction to Lifetime Regrets and Successes

Learn By Experiences is all about passing experiences on to others. Many times these experiences can be thought of as a regret or things we brag about.

This section is all about passing them on. For adults and seniors this section can show you that you have much company. You can also pass the experience along to a teen or young parent who is trying to make a lifetime decision.

As a Teen
Teens make a lifetime of decisions during their teen years. Many parents say things like "I don't want you to make the same mistakes I made". Try to get your teen to look at this section to try and prevent some lifetime regret.
As a Parent
Parents can become a parent without a lot of preparation. If you are a new parent look at what other parents view as their regrets or successes. If you have experiences as a parent please pass on your regrets and successes by answering the questions.
Relationships
Every relationship has regrets and successes. As you answer the questions you can see what percentage of others view as their major regrets or successes.
Lifestyles
Many lifestyle regrets can be repaired. See how your regrets compare to other's regrets. Also compare your successes to others.
Financials
The Budgeting and Financial planning addresses fixes for many of these regrets and successes. For example building a budget is a necessary evil to fix your financial woes. Learn by Experiences makes building a budget easy, because you can see what others have responded to over 400 budgeting items.
Running out of money during retirement may be the worst financial regret of all time. Learn By Experiences financial planning can show you if and when you will run out based on your budget.
Rate the things you did, or didn't do, as a teenager from being glad to a huge regret.
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Started smoking
Hung with wrong crowd
Dated wrong people
Married the wrong person
Parents were not good parents
Did bad things to parents
Wasted my education
Didn't go to college
Dropped out of school
Played sports
Did extracurricular activities
Dropped playing sports
Developed poor eating habits
Didn't develop math skills
Didn't develop language skills
Didn't develop any important skill
Had casual sex
Shoplifted or stole
Started drinking
Started using drugs
Drove recklessly
Lost driving license
Got in car accident
Got in car accident with injuries
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Rate the things you did, or didn't do, as a parent from being glad to a huge regret.
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Didn't get involved enough in school
Didn't stress importance of education
Allowed them to have bad friends
Didn't snoop into teen's activities
Didn't enforce accountability
Didn't set proper expectations
Didn't understand what was going on
Didn't find enough time for teen
Spent too much time away from home
Didn't influence teen enough
Didn't discipline teen consistently
Didn't talk to teen enough
Wasn't understanding enough
Didn't teach them the value of money
Didn't make them earn their money
Didn't spend enough money on teen
Didn't feed them healthy food
Didn't make sure they exercised
Wasn't calm and collected
Shouted or swore at teen
Didn't set a proper example
Wasn't a good enough parent
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Rate the things you did, or didn't do, in your relationships from being glad to a huge regret.
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
I have never found a soulmate
I have never been married
I have been divorced
I am married but unhappy
I got married too young
I got married to the wrong person
I had children too early in life
I had children after I was too old
I had too many children
I raised a child(ren) by myself
I am not an appealing mate
My mate is outside of my religion
My mate is outside of my race
My mate is outside of my social class
My mate is outside of my intellect
My mate is a person opposite of me
My mate is a very attractive person
My mate is an alcoholic
My mate is an abusive person
My mate is lazy
My mate spends too much money
My mate cheats on me
We are sexually incompatable
My mate is too fat or skinny
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Rate the things you did, or didn't do, in your lifestyle from being glad to a huge regret.
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Very busy and active
Very well organized
A personal achiever
A caretaker of others
Am financially secure
Have positive influence friends
Your relatives also your friends
Average enough sleep per day
Good overall feeling about my job
Time spent on job is good
Commuting time to work is good
Eating out frequency is good
Seriously attempt to eat healthy
Frequently worry about kids
Good overall relationship with kid(s)
Spend too much on kids
Enjoy our lifestyle with mate
Enjoy intimacy with mate
Level of order and cleanliness is good
Level of exercise is good
Spend reasonable time on hobbies
Traveling, site seeing, etc. is good
I am active in my religion
I am a smoker
I am a drinker
I am a gambler
I am overweight
Overall I am healthy
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
Rate the things you did, or didn't do, financially from being glad to a huge regret.
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
I am in financial trouble
I will not be able to afford retirement
I don't know if I can afford retirement
I will lose (have lost) my house
I can't refinance my house
I have refinanced my house
My home equity has gone down a lot
I had my car repossessed
I have filed bankruptcy
I have lost my job due to the economy
I have lost my job due to other issues
I have never lived on a budget
I have no idea where my money goes
My credit card debt is very high
My student loans are very high
My automobile expenses are very high
My medical expenses are very high
My dwelling expenses are very high
My investments have gone down
I haven't invested wisely
I haven't saved enough money
I don't have adequate life insurance
I don't have health insurance
I haven't spent my money wisely
I have paid too much taxes
Inflation is really hurting me
My divorce cost me a fortune
My child support is expensive
Regret or Success n/a Not true Glad true OK true Regret true Huge regret
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