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Billie
04-21-2006, 06:38 AM
"Allow yourself guilt-free time."
Meditations for women

WOW this one really hit me the more I thought about it. If you are like me, you can have the most wonderful day, or do the best job at a presentation, whatever the scenario but once in awhile, it is like I could have done more or better. (Little Type A going on :D ). Is there a time in your life, in your day when you are completely guilt free?

Think about that one. Do you second guess alot? Do you have that sinking feeling alot? You know folks, we really shouldn't. If we put what we have to give that day into whatever we are doing, we need to feel guilt free.

If our day is not perfect on program, it is still a day that we tried our best, we need not to feel that remorse or guilt. I think I never realized that as much as I do recently, that I am being more forgiving of myself if I screw up.

Changing our thinking and concentrating on 90% of the positive we do can make a whole lot of difference in our attitude, control and confidence.

Can you be happy today with a 90% effort? Or a 50% effort and not feel guilt? I hope we can learn to absorb the really good parts of our day and let the other parts teach us a lesson and we apply it but not to induce guilty thoughts, heck we are dong a lot better than that!

Have a GREAT day!

Mitra
04-21-2006, 06:44 AM
This is something I'm working on. It often seems that I can't do what everyone wants of me. I'm working on accepting that I just have to make a choice about what I will do and then not keep on feeling bad about the things I didn't do.

A few weeks ago my church asked for volunteers to go along on a Saturday morning to help with some cleaning. I went along, but realised that I was feeling guilty for not spending Saturday morning at home with my husband. I couldn't believe that I was turning out to spend two or three hours doing something I don't really enjoy, in the freezing cold - and managing to feel guilty for doing it :rolleyes:. But it was useful, because it made me realise how silly it was. I was just adding stress to my life.

I'm sure it will take a while to break the habit, but I'm really working on not feeling guilty because I can't please everybody all the time.

SherryJ
04-21-2006, 10:26 AM
Oh, Billie, WOW is right!

I try, and teach our boys as well, that if I/WE give 100%, that's all we have... regardless of what the rest of the world says, or if the job/situation isn't completed to "perfection"... easy to say, hard to apply!

Sherry

cmcole
04-21-2006, 11:58 AM
I don't have adequate comments at present for this, but will certainly think about it frequently, and try to incorporate it in my thinking patterns.

gitfiddle
04-21-2006, 12:30 PM
I'm actually getting the hang of this one. :D