Do you ever get frustrated when you make a mistake and things don’t go as planned? I know I did.

The problem with that frustration we feel when things go wrong is that it will prevent us from seeing what it is also happening around us, and we get trapped in our guilt for making mistakes, and it will eventually paralyze us.

It is important to acknowledge those mistakes and learn from them, that's what continuous improvement is all about, and us coaches talk about it almost daily with the people and teams we coach.

But as important as learning from our mistakes is to learn to let go of the guilt we feel from those mistakes.

As professionals we don't want to fail, as parents we don't want to fail, as sons / daughters we don't want to fail, as employees we don't want to fail, and this list goes on and on. So the feeling to do things right is embedded in our brains and making a shift has to be intentional.

So I took it upon myself to make changes in my life to ensure I am not so hard on myself, to understand I am also human, and that I also make mistakes, and that it is ok.

I have realized I was entirely too hard on myself and that the level of self-empathy was a little below my own standards, so it wasn't easy to adjust.

But those changes proven to be good; they got me back into a happy place where I can shine and be the person I like to be.

I needed to learn to forgive myself for the cues I have missed in conversations, for the unspoken words, for the feelings I were meant to had but I have missed and for the things I have erred on unintentionally.

I have also discovered that with letting go of Guilt and embracing Grace, I have also embraced Gratitude, experience Growth, and showed up with Grith.

It was clear that with #Guilt and without #Grace, #Gratitude and #Growth, I would never be #Great.

So I leave you with that, take a step back and live a life where you are not so hard on yourself and that you show up with Grace, Gratitude, Grit and Greatness to allow your Growth instead of Guilt.

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