“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
This quote of course got me thinking because I am for some reason always trying to change myself. I notice something that I don’t like about myself and try and fix it and I want results right away. But, if it could be that easy...Expectations and Judgement are two of my weakest character defects that I would love to change, but how?
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I have identified the fact that whenever I expect something it either never happens or it happens in a way I never imagined. There is nothing like thinking if you do things exactly the way you think they should be done to get the results you are looking for and then it doesn’t happen! You go back and retrace your steps and think to yourself where did I go wrong? If life could be that easy...
Presently, I try to not have expectations and then I am not disappointed. Outcomes are so much more delicious if you go in not expecting anything and you receive a wonderful surprise.
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My other defect, judgement, seems to get me into more trouble than it is worth. For the majority of my 44 years I saw life as black or white and there was barely any grey! That was my loss, and I realized after reflection that the reason I wouldn’t see past my judgement was due to fear!!! I was fearful and still am at times fearful of people who look different and have different views. Instead of taking the opportunity to learn something new fear got in the way and, as the old saying goes, “I got egg on my face”.
Today, color has seeped into my head and given me a huge gift. I have the ability to set the fear aside and learn new things that in the past I would have shy’d away from. People and places that I would have feared because they looked different or seamed different. I am willing to take the time and learn something new and I have realized that I really had missed a lot of opportunities to enrich myself because of my own fear.
Action of the day:
Identify what you most dislike about yourself and try and do the opposite of what you have been doing and see what happens.
