"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"
~Rob Bremer, Speaker
I have thought about this a lot lately. I am harder on myself than most anyone could ever be on me...Why is that? Why do we beat ourselves up most of the time over something that we did the best we could and that is all that can really be asked of us..I always think for some reason that I can do better than I did.
In the back of my mind I know with absolute certainty that I did the best I possibly could have done. So why...why do I do this to myself. I would get downright mad if anyone else talked to me like that, so why do I allow myself to do it? I heard somewhere a while back if you dont value yourself noone else is going to raise their thoughts of you either. This is something that I am learning on a daily basis. I am learning to not be so hard on myself. I am learning that there are things about me that make me who I am. I am beginning to like who I am and what I am doing with my life. I ran across the following quote today...while I was cleaning out my email.
"Between whatever happens to me and my response to it is a space.
In that space is my freedom and power to choose my response. And in response lay my growth and happiness."
~Stephen Covey
I am going to try to make a conscious effort to use that space wisely to choose the response that is and will be best for me and for my family, my business, our life in general. NO one can take that response time away from me and it is within that time that the decisions I make will make me!
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