I screwed up, now what?

Let me ask you a question? What do you honestly, and I mean honestly do when you mind starts down the slippery slope of what if’s could be, would haves? What do you do when you find yourself in a situation and you knee jerk is, “That’s it I’m dead, I might as well lay down and just give up now, pile dirt on myself, in a hole somewhere, and be done with it!”. You know that true screw up moment.

First, everyone goes through this and, it’s rarely really catasroophic. If your find yourself in this thought right now, it will be okay, even if its not it is still going to be okay. It’s fine to have this thought, but don’t let it stick to you. No one is perfect, everyone does things and thinks oops, or they say I’ll ask for forgiveness later, whatever the case might be.

The trick is to learn from these situations, so you can avoid them in the future, you know branch out make totally new mess up’s! For myself I usually go to the bottom of the screw up slope, and stop there. I think okay maybe it’s not that bad, and I try and improve on it (loosely quoted from Dale Carnagie’s How to make friends and influence people ). Now that I’ve thought about how bad it is, let’s fix it. I usually sit and think of several ways and weigh outcomes then, pick the one with the best outcome.

Sometimes I feel like I’m spinning my wheels but, that is part of the growth process. The trick is to make whole new mistakes and not make the same mistakes over and over again. Insanity is doing the same things expecting a different result (Albert Einstein I think?)