Tag: mistakes

What did you learn today?

Posted on by philipdodson

We often reflect at the end of a day, or even during that day on several occasions, about the things we messed up, didn’t do, did wrong, said wrong and then we can go back to the day before, the week before, the month, year…and so on. We can trawl through all the disasters and dredge them up.

What if we just asked ourselves instead ‘what did I learn today?’.

Maybe things would get even better, worth a try, as I am sure we’ve all been down the ‘beating ourselves up’ road and that doesn’t lead anywhere great.

Being ok with things

Posted on by philipdodson

In the past I would beat myself up relentlessly about things.

Then finally I realised that it never inspired any improvement or change, not once did I feel good about myself afterwards.

So after years of painful struggle to change the habit, I’ve now reached a place of ‘being ok with things’.

I still fuck up, we all do. I still have days when I don’t achieve much, hey, we all do. I’ve slowly learnt to accept.

OK, I’ll still have the odd beating up session for old time sake. But that’s OK.

Perhaps my mellowness has come with many years of life experience, sure that’s some of it, however, I believe it’s a mindset I could have chosen at any age.

It’s not that I do not care, well actually, I don’t care, it’s only a chance to learn and that’s it, no one died, I survived, and life goes on.

If we just focus on getting even better slightly every day, then that’s the best we can aim for and it’s OK if we don’t.