Sunday, 15 February 2015
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Thursday, 25 December 2014
ACCEPTING AND LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTAKES
As the year comes to an
end, are you ready to honestly assess your failures amidst your successes and
achievements? Many people are ego driven and
just defend themselves to defer attention away from themselves and downplay the
seriousness of a situation, or to deny fault. Admitting where, why, and
how an error occurred gives each one of us the opportunity to correct it, and
to concentrate on avoiding similar errors in future.
A leader of one small country visited the prison which had
200 prisoners. He sat with each inmate wanting to know what they had done, but
one after the other they all gave excuses about how they were set up and how
innocent they were.
However, the last inmate told the leader that he was jailed
because he had a fight with his best friend, whom he hit, killing him
instantly. He expressed how remorseful he was and how he regretted everything,
and narrated how they had been good friends since childhood.
The leader asked the guards to release the last prisoner. “Well”,
he said, “It seems all the other 199 inmates did not commit any mistake. Release
the inmate who has admitted to his mistakes; let him go out and leave with
other people who have mistakes. As for those who have committed no mistakes,
let them remain together in prison with their perfect lives”.
Constant refusal to face up to being wrong can take a toll on
one’s reputation, relationship, work and life. Embrace humility, recognize
failures and acknowledge them.
Alexander Pope, said “No one should
be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that
they are wiser today than they were yesterday”.
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Suffer The Pain Of Discipline OrThe Pain Of Regret
I am neither a
spendthrift nor an impulse buyer. But at times the temptation is too much. And
this has taught me a valuable lesson. I visited a prestigious shop one day and
was attracted to a brown handbag which was unique beautiful
and big enough for my stuffs. I had to buy it. I never got to use the bag due to the fact
that I had to carry a laptop most of the time to the office and during the
field trips. This bag was completely forgotten.
Now, three
months later, I saw a handbag in one of the shops, it was brown and beautiful
and I immediately fell in love with it. I bought it. I had a nagging feeling
that I had seen such a bag somewhere or with someone but I could not remember
where or with whom. Of course as usual, I did not use it immediately. After
some days, I got the chance to use my handbag and match it my brown clothes and
as I was removing the handbag, I could not believe it as I saw to identical
handbags in fact by the same manufacturer one was a shade browner than the
other but I could not even tell which one I bought first and in which shop. I
could not return any of them to the shop since I had long thrown the receipts.
How could I? I
kept asking myself. I should have bought something else at least essential. But
the milk had spilt and could not be collected. I learnt a hard lesson on the
need of self discipline and particularly planning. It’s your turn to choose, and
choices have consequences, would you rather suffer the pain of discipline or
the pain of regret?
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