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Before I left on vacation, I was making my lists and checking them twice and I don’t know how it happened, but something fell through the cracks. Apparently I had recorded a couple of tasks on the wrong days, which almost affected a deadline. Thankfully, someone else noticed the oversight in time and things quickly got back on track. Tasks we perform can become second nature to the point where we rarely give them a further thought. But this situation reminded me that as together as I may look on the outside, I’m still human. Just like the next person, I find myself distracted, derailed or flustered and say or do things I can only shake my head at after the fact. Instead of obsessing about or beating myself up over my blunders, however, I’m working on wiping up each mess as I go and moving on. I’ve got too much to do to get hung up over spilt milk.
Do you obsess over your mistakes, or can you easily shake them off?