No matter the situation, opportunity is always present.
The opportunity to rise to a challenge or perhaps not. The opportunity to lead, to be more, to do more are all there, as is the opportunity to do nothing. The choice is yours to pursue the opportunities that present themselves.
This is going to be a quick post on the key lessons I’ve learnt in 2019. I hope in sharing these that you can take something from them and maybe learn something new in 2020.
The fragility of life is what makes it beautiful. Sounds a bit morbid I know but hear me out.
This can be difficult, but true and necessary.
It’s tempting for us all to hold onto the old ways, the people, the times and the way the world used to be. Sometimes the present is not so glamorous and we make the choice to live in the past, clinging onto what we see as better times.
Everything seems easy when you look back.
I could have done this or I should have done that, you might say to yourself over and over. Yet, you forget that you did whatever you did based on what you knew at the time and this is all any of us ever have – this moment.
That’s the ultimate problem with hindsight, it’s an alluring false reality of what could have been, because it would have never been.
We can all only do what we know to be the best in this moment right now, we can only make decisions or take actions on what we know to be right or true in this moment, not 3 weeks from now.
So don’t be so hard on yourself, realise that you did the best you could in what you knew at that time and no deep dive hindsight party in your head will ever change that.
It’s like Theodore Roosevelt perfectly summed up – “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”
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