Day 123 | Teaches Only...

My friend, Art Grecko, reminded me recently of an old Aldous Huxley quote that I encourage you to consider as you complete this week:

Experience only teaches the teachable.

Dear Leaders, how many times have we repeated an error because we were not teachable at an earlier moment when someone else caused a problem or we made a mistake?  The honest answer is too many.

And by the way, look in the mirror on this one rather than think of others who do this.  You only have full control over yourself.

BUT (there's that big "but" making excuses again) you were too busy...  You procrastinated (for years)...  You blamed someone else instead of learning from the experience...  You moved too quickly to think about it, or thought a lot about it, yet did not take action...

As you head into the weekend, consider how well you are doing on your annual goals and confirm you achieved your 3Strands for the week.  Then consider the events of the past week.  Identify one thing that happened where you can be more teachable, consider how you can apply what you learned, commit to change, and implement a new habit or system that improves your life and positively affect the lives of others.

It is only one thing.  You can do this.