by Steve Taubman on January 30, 2012
I have a friend; someone I consider conscious, intelligent, and kind. Yet, when she’s upset or irritable, she’s not above treating her husband harshly and with disrespect. It’s painful to see, hurtful to him, and embarrassing to her when she recovers herself and realizes what she’s done.
We all have times when we clearly do the WRONG thing. Sometimes it’s because we don’t know what the right thing is…. but more often, it’s because we give ourselves the latitude to act from our emotions rather than our values.
This requires discipline, strength, and a set of inviolable personal rules. One of those is STOP… Never act or decide anything when you are SCARED, TIRED, OVERWHELMED or PISSED OFF (substitute PEEVED if you don’t like the colloquialism). Learn to control your actions by witnessing your emotions rather than acting from them. Your life will improve!
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by Steve Taubman on January 25, 2012
“The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety, nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.”
-Edward Fitzgerald
How easily we weigh ourselves down with the burden of our past actions, mistakes and omissions. How surely we seal our future fate with the glue of our personal history. Yet nothing but our conviction that the past equals the future can stop us from starting over.
Just like when you were a kid playing street games, you still have the power and the right to call a DO OVER. Let go of your self-judgments and limiting beliefs, and realize that you can begin fresh now.
Whether you require new knowledge, fresh inspiration or a better support system, the resources you need are there for the taking. Shake off the disappointment with yourself, and take them!
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