Where did you stumble? (DW#523)
Once we have acknowledged our successes for the past year, it is easier to confront and acknowledge where we stumbled or fell short.
So let’s remember the domains of our lives again: social, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual, marital, parental, financial.
Where did you have the greatest challenges? Where these challenges outside your control or as a result of your own choices?
For example, if the stock market crashes and causes you to have financial setbacks, it is outside your control. (How much you invest and how you diversify is within your control however . . . ) If your financial crisis is caused by overspending, not saving or other actions, the situation is caused by your own actions.
If we lose our job because of industry-wide cut backs, we cannot control that. But if we lose our jobs because we slacked and did not do our best, our actions caused our challenges. Get the picture?
While it is helpful to own responsibility for our actions, it is NOT helpful to become paralysed by self blame. The goal here is to learn and make better choices in the future, not to beat ourselves up for our mistakes.
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