Are you feeding these monsters? They might include anger, jealousy, sorrow, regret, guilt, lies, greed, arrogance, resentment, self-pity, inferiority, superiority, and false pride.
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Why Is It So Hard To Say “I’m sorry” (even when you want to)?
I don’t remember the details of what hurtful thing I’d said or done, but I must have lost my temper with one of my [then] middle-school-aged children before school. I definitely remember how wretched I felt and how, finally, I wrote a note of apology, drove to the school, and asked the teacher to […]
What’s Your Biggest Regret?
I was deeply touched by this short (3-minute) video below — a simple experiment on a city sidewalk that gave passers-by the opportunity to write down their biggest regret. I shouldn’t have been surprised that in most cases—almost all cases—it was something they didn’t do, not something they did do. Of course that got me […]