7 Ways I’m Choosing to Love on Other People Moving Forward
When in doubt, focus out.
What I’m most scared of regretting when I’m older is not doing the things I feel called to do.
I check in with myself daily asking, “am I doing (or not doing) anything that I’ll regret later on?”
So many of us are avoiding something, be it a relationship, a difficult conversation, fear of failure, rejection, awkwardness, or whatever. Personally, I’ve been avoiding discomfort in almost every possible way, staying wrapped in my cocoon of hermithood.
“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both.” — Brene Brown
I am choosing to put a greater emphasis on people moving forward, and these are the first ways I’ll be doing just that.
1. Remember everyone’s name. People who say “I’m no good with names, so no offense if I don’t remember yours,” are people who manage to offend me right off the bat.
Saying that is akin to saying, “you do not matter to me enough to remember your name.” Adding “no offense” does not remove the offense the recipient actually feels.
I know because I did this in a 4-day personal development course in 2015 in New York. It was a group of about 40 of us, and we all had name tags for the…
