Study Hall » mistakes http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall Coaching For Results Wed, 12 May 2010 07:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Some Of The Key Indicators For Whether Or Not You Have Done Your Personal Best http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/some-of-the-key-indicators-for-whether-or-not-you-have-done-your-personal-best/ http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/some-of-the-key-indicators-for-whether-or-not-you-have-done-your-personal-best/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:00:13 +0000 Hutt Bush http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/?p=689 Some of the indicia of whether or not we have done our personal best include:

Have we improved a situation both for ourselves and others?

Have we grown by stretching ourselves beyond what is easy and convenient?

Have we stopped and chosen where we want to focus our best efforts, all the while knowing that best efforts in one area are likely to result in less than best efforts in another?

Lincoln said, “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Being wiser each day, learning from mistakes, understanding hidden dynamics that impact our ability to act from our best selves:  how do you feel about these as indicators of doing your best?

]]> http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/some-of-the-key-indicators-for-whether-or-not-you-have-done-your-personal-best/feed/ 0 The Freedom To Err Is Fundamental To All Freedoms http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/the-freedom-to-err-is-fundamental-to-all-freedoms/ http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/the-freedom-to-err-is-fundamental-to-all-freedoms/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 11:00:34 +0000 http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/?p=441 This week, let’s consider freedom in as many different contexts as possible. Gandhi said, “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

The freedom to experiment, to make choices and to make mistakes is foundational for other freedoms. Dogma opposes freedom. Yet, seemingly paradoxically, there can be tremendous freedom in profound commitment.

How free are you? Not just in the abstract, but in reality: How free are you to live the life you desire? What impediments have there been to your freedom? Is it possible that the most significant detriments to our own freedom have been self-made?

]]> http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/the-freedom-to-err-is-fundamental-to-all-freedoms/feed/ 0 Releasing Attachment to Wrongs and Starting Over http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/releasing-attachment-to-wrongs-and-starting-over/ http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/releasing-attachment-to-wrongs-and-starting-over/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:00:13 +0000 Hutt Bush http://www.coachingforresults.com/studyhall/?p=263 So far this week, we’ve focused on our own starting over. Today, consider the wisdom of allowing others to start over with you.

Everyone has made mistakes in life. It’s just a matter of degree, but . . . face it, no one escapes doing some really dumb things.

We can assist others in their journeys by losing the attachment to past wrongs and saying, “The rest of my relationship with this person begins now.”

Imagine what a difference that would make in business, family friend and romantic situations.

Allowing others to start over means that you don’t hold their past performance against them. By giving them a clean slate:
* Grudges disappear

* Wounds heal

* Harmony expands

* Freedom grows

This is not a “touchy-feely,” “lah-lah” strategy. Rather, it has highly practical outcomes. Life gets better! Results improve!

Please think of some people whose conduct you can reframe in your mind as only in the past . . . and consciously allow them to start over. Breathe and observe the way you feel as you release the past and allow the present with nothing but possibilities.

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