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BE
KIND TO YOURSELF AS YOU LEARN AND GROW
Becoming competent is part of growing and
developing. It takes time, effort, and attention. How are you going to be
with yourself when you make mistakes? When you misstep and fall?
Imagine learning how to ride a horse. You might fall
off as you are learning how to ride. What do you do? Do you stay on the
ground whining that you fell off? Will you get angry at the horse, or
yourself? Might you refuse to get up, afraid you might fall off again? Or
do you get up, brush yourself off, and remount the horse and go at it
again?
If you are going to learn to ride, you will do the
latter. The key in learning anything is NOT how many times you fall off
the horse, but that you pick yourself up one more time than you fell off.
As we grow in competence, we will fall less often
and stay on the ground for shorter amounts of time.
If you are like me - you are always learning
something. If you are the kind of person who loves to grow and evolve, you
have set yourself up in yet another classroom to learn something. So
falling off is part of what happens in life. Becoming competent in picking
yourself up and getting back on the horse is a more useful skill than
trying not to fall off at all.
QUOTES
"The secret of success? Fall down seven
times, get up eight."
~ Chinese Proverb ~
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING
When you embark upon any new learning, declare
yourself a beginner.
Remind yourself that you don't know how to do what
you are learning, yet.
Pretend you are a loving adult guiding a youngster
in learning something new when you speak to yourself.
Imagine how gentle you can be as you pick yourself
up lovingly when you trip and fall on the way to learning how to do what
you are learning to do.
WONDER
QUESTION:
How might your life be different if you choose to
talk to yourself with gentle kindness as you learn and grow?
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