More changes are happening. I’m able to let events happen
and let words pass through me. I’m able to take what resonates and leave the
rest. It’s not perfect, but I’m definitely noticing improvement. I recently had
someone in my life ask if I’d taken care of something, and I didn’t have time
to look into it really, and I thought I hadn’t. So I proceeded to get lectured.
Normally I’d get all defensive and upset and feel like a failure and have all
of these emotions. This time, I just accepted the comments and moved forward
with what I could do. Turns out I’d misunderstood, and I had taken care of it,
anyway… but the important part here is that I didn’t let the lecture bring me
down. I even accepted validity in it and made a mental note to work on that
aspect of myself.
It’s important to know that even when you screw up, you
are not a failure. Beating yourself up, attacking back, defending yourself –
all of these things are wasted energy. Well, actually I’m only taking into
account things that are not moral-based. So let’s ignore moral-based screw-ups
for now. Your typical daily screw-ups do not make you a failure. Even semi-big
screw ups do not make you a failure. Really, even the huge things are still
just part of being human, but that takes a whole other level of acceptance and
love that I am not quite at yet, so I’m starting small. Baby steps. All you can
do is move forward – learn from your mistakes, face your fears, get to the root
of the problem and push on. Don’t dwell. Don’t hate yourself. Work to improve
your situation. Work to improve your habits, your thoughts and your life. “Every
day is a chance to re-invent yourself.” That’s a quote from an old tv show that
was on for a little while called Men In Trees from back in… 2007 or so. So many
good quotes from that show, it’s really too bad it went away.
Who are you going to be today? How are you going to
re-invent yourself? How are you going to re-invent your life?
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