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TAKE THE HIT AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE Acknowledge Your Failings: You don’t have to shout them from the rooftops, but you have to at least be honest with yourself. When you haven’t lived up to your full potential, “take the hit” and admit your failing. Don’t beat yourself up, just admit your error, learn from it, and make a commitment to do better
... See moreDan Rust • Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?
you make a mistake, be prepared to apologize, explain what happened, offer a plan to mitigate the impact or fix the problem, and explain how you will avoid making the same mistake again.
Gorick Ng • The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right
Exercises for Chapter 10: 1. Write honestly about some event in your life in which you feel you behaved badly. a. On paper, confess clearly what you feel were your flaws in this situation, exactly where and how you erred. Take full selfresponsibility for your negativity. b. Allow yourself to feel fully the pain of the real guilt for what you did, s
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
it doesn’t seem fair. When you don’t take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate, or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility—even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair—you keep your life’s reins in your own hands. Negative and difficult things happen to all of us; most
... See moreJohn David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Now here are three stages of wisdom: the unwise person blames other people for what are, in the end, her own judgments about things; the person who is making progress does not blame others, but only herself; the wise person does not blame even herself.