Intelligent Disobedience - A Means of Avoiding Remorse

Remorse is lasting. It is the conclusion of an emotional path starting with apprehension, then fear, emptiness, and finally remorse. This emotional pathway is launched in several ways, including:

·        Taking a course of action you believe is unproductive or detrimental.

·        Standing on the sidelines and watching something fall short of expectations.

·        Failing to follow through on a strong, intuitive thought.

·        Supporting or taking an action that compromises your integrity.

The timing of the journey through the emotional path to remorse can progress quickly. Other times it takes many months. However, each story or situation ends the same way, with remorse as an emotional burden that isn’t easily discarded.

The good news is wisely deploying intelligent disobedience can spare you from traversing this unhappy pathway.

Interestingly enough, your intelligent disobedience doesn’t have to succeed to avoid this emotional trap. Positive intent is the anecdote to remorse. People rarely express remorse over actions they undertook with positive intent, even if those actions failed to provide the desired end result. Falling short of achieving the right outcome might create regrets, but those are temporary and something we can quickly learn from. You can take solace from “trying to do what was right.”  

There are four elements to ensuring your intelligently disobedient remorse killer works as planned:

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