Heidi Rae Coaching - Not a Life Sentence

Babes!!

I messed up BIG yesterday. Like, extra large - big mess up. Like, I had a hard time sleeping last night extra large big mess up. Like, I feel embarrassed, ashamed, guilty, sad... ALL the feelings that come with extra large big mess ups that take hold of our minds and mess up our sleeping and eating and performing well at anything for a while!

I have zero excuses for what I did. I was just plain wrong. I was totally in my false self. I behaved badly for about 15-20 seconds and I feel awful. In order to move forward and be in my true self, I'm having to work through this... not around it, not over it or under it, not by turning my back on it and pretending it didn't actually happen... I have to work through it.

Good news: I am FULLY aware of what I did. I am aware that what I did was wrong. I am aware that there is no excuse for behaving poorly.

More good news: I have amaze-a-balls people in my village who listen and love and talk me through things when I can't quite talk through them with my darn self.

One of those people handed me a post-it note this morning that read, "It's a lesson, not a life sentence." Oh, how true this is. Did I learn a lesson? Oh, yes. Am I aware of what I did wrong? Yup! Do lessons sometimes suck a LOT? Most of the time! Can I be a better person for having learned this lesson? Absofreakinglutely!

Babes, we are going to be ridiculously ridiculous multiple times throughout our lives. We are going to suck the suck. We are going to look for the biggest possible rock ever to hide under. We are going to WISH we could get our feet up to our face to stick in our mouths!

Lessons are meant to be learned. They are meant to show us our weaknesses, our poor choices, the basements of our strengths... Learn it and be better for it.

It's a lesson, not a life sentence.