If you erase all of the mistakes of your past, you’d also erase all of the wisdom of your present. Remember the lesson, not the disappointment.

When was the last time that you almost did something that would’ve gone catastrophically wrong, but at the last second you chose a different course of action?

I would be willing to speculate that a big reason that you made an alternate choice was directly correlating to a earlier moment in your life when you faced a similar conundrum, and you made the wrong choice, which ended poorly for you.

When we become aware that we are continuously standing upon the shoulders of whom we were yesterday, we become all the more willing and capable of leveraging all of that knowledge to our greater benefit and long-term success.

To err is human, to forgive, devine.

Forgiving oneself for making the errors that we have made is sometimes much harder than forgiving others for whatever trespasses on our world they have willingly or unwillingly created.

When it comes time to forgive ourselves, we are filled with guilt, fear, remorse, regret, anger and sadness. In such a negative flurry of disappointed emotions, when is it possible for us to conjure the supplemental strength required to accept the flaws that we have made, and travel beyond them into virgin territory?

I believe a lot of that stems from repeated moments of understanding that, in prior circumstances, even if it took much longer than we might have hoped to have forgiven ourselves, once we did, and we matured past that point of vulnerability, our lives evolved for the better, and the lesson of the experience was presumably learned.

If you find yourself continuously making the same blunder, perhaps it is time to seek the advice of someone professional who will be willing to assist you in helping to adjust your thought process and methodology, by helping you to replace that for a dependable path to navigate your way to safe harbor after experiencing whatever it is that continuously defeats you at your greatest moment of vulnerability.

Life is tremendously complicated on its best days and the more we are capable of grasping that core tenent, the easier it will be for us to accelerate beyond that, into a world of newfound wisdom and opportunity.

Happy Saturday!