🔥 My regret: Listening to my parents and not making my own decisions

🔥 Live life without regret!

I want to share one of my regrets:

🔴 Not going to National University of Singapore for summer exchange before I started my grad job at Citi.

💌 In early 2015, I received a full time Management Associate offer at Citi.

The program was to start in August 2015.

At the same time, I received a NUS exchange program offer for 3 weeks in July 2015.

📝 My original plan was to exchange at NUS in Jul 

📝 then start my job at Citi in Aug

But my mom was unhappy with the arrangement.

She said I already had 3 exchanges during my university life:

🌍 University of Cambridge in my first year

🌍 Copenhagen Business School in my second year

🌍 UNC Chapel Hill in my final year

She said I was being greedy and not thankful when CUHK offered me 3 exchanges opportunities.

She said I was self-centred. 

She did not see the additional benefit of doing one more exchange in Singapore.

I argued that

🔵 I earned my NUS Exchange Opportunity

🔵 I could fund the Exchange with my internship salary at Deutsche Bank

🔵 I could stand out from my other Global Business classmates who also went to Copenhagen and UNC Chapel Hill for exchange

She said

🧠 I need to be “mature”

🧠 I need to grow up and be an “adult”

She asked me to call Citi to start the full-time job earlier in Jul and ditch my NUS program.

☎️ I called Citi, thinking that they would not allow me to start work earlier.

However, Citi said yes – to start work a month earlier.

❎ Hence, I listened to my parents.

To be honest, looking back, I regretted this decision a lot.

But did I blame my parents?

No – I am grateful that my parents sent me to CUHK Global Business.

I blame this all to myself:

🚨 I was not an independent thinker

🚨 I listened to others

🚨 I let others control my life instead of myself

Was it my fault?

✅ Yes, completely.

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Because of this incident, I learnt 3 things:

✅ I need to be independent!

Hence I bought a property once I save up and moved away from my parents

✅ I need to make my own decisions and own up to the consequences

If I fail in my life, that is because of the poor decisions I made.

This could be financial/relationship/career decisions.

✅ I need to live life without regret 🔥🔥🔥

I constantly ask myself, will I regret if I did not do this?

💡 What was one of your regrets in your life?

💡 Why did you regret it?

💡 What did you learn from this regret?

❤️ We all learnt to be a better version of ourselves because of these experiences.

❤️ I encourage you to dream big and take control of your life. 

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