Mistakes

Can you accept your mistakes? Can you give thanks for the opportunity to learn and to grow? Can you expect that you won’t be perfect and know that you are good enough? But can you also repair what you can and grow as you go? Oh how I hate mistakes. I just got back from playing pickle ball and there’s nothing quite as annoying as making simple mistakes. Whether pickle ball, chess, a conversation, following the GPS. You name it, the simple mistake is something that never fails to create a moment of frustration for me. I think the secret is what happens after the moment of frustration. It’s impossible not to feel the frustration, at least for me. But after it, there are really three choices. I either move past it, learn from it, or let it define me. Depending on the frustration, the first two are potential solutions, but the last one can be truly dangerous. As you read this I wonder: * What frustrations have you gone through today? * Which of the three paths did you pick? * If the frustration is defining you, can you ask the question why? Letting our frustrations define us is a choice. But it is a choice that does not respect our intent. And our intent is, I think, the truest representation of who we are as humans. As you go through the week, can you learn from frustrations when you can and then let them disappear beneath the water of life. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aconstantbecoming.substack.com