{"id":5075,"date":"2017-07-04T20:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T00:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T23:20:26","slug":"365149-letting-go-of-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365149-letting-go-of-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#149:\u00a0Letting Go of Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Days-365149-dandelion1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Days-365149-dandelion1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In my blog about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365148-letting-go-of-anger\/\">Letting Go of Anger<\/a><\/strong>, I suggested that part of letting go of anger against others includes letting go of anger at myself. Upon reflection, it wasn\u2019t hard to make a list of things I&#8217;ve \u00a0messed up, regretted, or wished I could do over. Some are trivial, some are embarrassing, some are acts for which I need to ask forgiveness. Some recent ones that come to my mind are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overpaying for admission to the Ark Encounter in N. Kentucky. I misunderstood when the discount time started and paid more than I planned for our party of four. This wouldn\u2019t be so bad for a worthy cause, but I didn\u2019t want to support fake science with my dollars, I just wanted to indulge my curiosity.<\/li>\n<li>On a more significant scale, my husband, Jim, and I have recently been bickering about whether I don\u2019t listen well, especially since I too often am talking to him from another room and don\u2019t always hear his answer. I maintain that he needs to speak more distinctly and say \u201cYes\u201d or \u201cNo,\u201d not something that sounds like \u201cNyeh.\u201d It came to a head today. It\u2019s humbling to be married, isn\u2019t it? As long time lovers we don\u2019t shy from letting each other know their faults. Fortunately, forgiveness heals.<\/li>\n<li>Awhile ago I sent my Quarterly Blog Summary to part of a database that should have been only used for organizational communication. I was embarrassed by my mistake and realized that not everyone cares to know about \u201cLiving Lightly\u201d just because we belong to the same organization. I tried to delete as many names as I knew, but it\u2019s like trying to catch all the dandelion seeds\/puffs when the wind blows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mistakes like these are not the end of the world, but they are humbling and can put a dent in one\u2019s self-esteem. I suppose the solution is that when it involves another person to ask forgiveness; and when it\u2019s just my own stupid mistake to forgive myself. Read Richard Rohr&#8217;s post on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/including-everything-2017-08-31\/\">Forgiveness<\/a><\/strong> for a deeper understanding of forgiving self and others.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s forgetting to recycle something that could have easily been recycled, criticizing someone, or breaking trust, we can\u2019t go back and undo the past \u2013 we only learn from it to do better in the future. \u2013 Mistakes are the tools of learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my blog about Letting Go of Anger, I suggested that part of letting go of anger against others includes letting go of anger at myself. Upon reflection, it wasn\u2019t hard to make a list of things I&#8217;ve \u00a0messed up, regretted, or wished I could do over. Some are trivial, some are embarrassing, some are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[29,17],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","tag-intangibles","tag-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}