Gift in Disguise
This is a guest post written by Michael Price, creator of Courage of Fearless Thinking Program. It has been my pleasure to meet Michael and attend his seminars. His program gets to the heart of what blocks our success and happiness and teaches us how to remove these obstacles.
All of us have had, and continue to have people/situations/occurrences/
events in our lives that we interpret as good or bad, happy or sad. We know how to handle the good and happy events in our lives. We enjoy!
In each event we interpret as bad or sad, there is a gift disguised as a problem. Each of us have had, and will periodically continue to have bad, sad or negative events/encounters in our lives. In each of those situations, there is a lesson for us to learn, an opportunity to grow.
We normally feel the emotion of the event, which is natural. However, many times we fail to learn the embedded lesson. Often, we continue to feel the emotion long past what is healthy for us. We re-live the situation over and over (Self-Talk).
It is said that we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. If this is true, then we should view our mistakes or events in our lives as an opportunity to learn.
Certainly we need to feel the emotion. And the more severe the event, the longer we will naturally feel the emotion. However, at some point it is time to “Learn the Lesson” and move-on.
We are feeling beings. We are also problem solving beings with the gift of “Original Thought”. So, when the time is appropriate, we need to “Leave the Event” behind, and carry the lesson into our future. We can then put the lessons learned into our tool-box of experience to deal with future events.
Use your Fearless Thinking skills to “Learn the Lesson - Leave the Event” and move-on.
Michael Price is the creator of The Courage of Fearless Thinking program. He is a teacher, consultant, coach, motivational speaker and author. Michael teaches The Courage of Fearless Thinking program to Businesses, Associations, Schools, Sports Teams, Churches and Individuals. Visit www.FearlessThinking.com for additional information or contact Michael directly at Info@FearlessThinking.com
August 5th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
We often have such a good memory of the mistakes we’ve made in our lifetime. A much fonder memory of the mistakes we’ve made than of the lessons learned. It’s b/c of this fond memory that it’s so difficult to let go… Every time we think about it, we judge ourselves and punish ourselves…
I say, let go of the past because you can’t change anything about it. We have a choice each and every day to decide what our future will be. I choose to let the past be and work on building my future today.
August 5th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
@ Ribeeze
You’re absolutely right about our memory of the mistakes. Congratulations on having learned how to let go of the past.