When have you failed?
A job?
A simple task?
In a relationship?
You don’t need to tell you that it stinks. Especially when you wanted it to go right the first time. One thing I have learned over the last 5 years is to give myself a break. If it is within the first 100 times I’ve done something, I shouldn’t be so hard on myself and to learn from every experience. For someone who has tendencies to be a perfectionist, this is truly hard. However, I have a HUGE reason to stop being so hard.
I have two handsome and smart boys who are looking to me to model good behavior. When they see me being hard on myself to do the right thing every time, then they too will take on the behavior to be hard on themselves to know what they don’t already know. Recently, I took one aside when he was getting frustrated when he couldn’t do the task I gave him. I asked him if he had done it before. Once or twice. I knew then I had to model it, do it with him, then allow him to do it for practice. He was very happy when he was able to accomplish the task. I was very happy as I now have 2 more hands who could do that task.
Life is always changing. Twists. Turns. Hills. Valleys. Tunnels. Vistas. All are on my road. There are so many more obstacles and victories ahead. Keeping my head up is difficult, but I need to see what’s coming no matter what it is.
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