It occurred to me today that we can easily miss evaluating losses. You might call it a review of mistakes and/or failures. Either way it is valuable to evaluate when things go "south."
One thing you must remember is that the losses aren’t designed to kill you. It can feel like that at times, but we really gain the most in our times of banishment. Success (as I’ve written before) can be our worst enemy. It can lull us and dull us into believing that life is all about winning. Obviously, life isn’t always about winning. If it were then we’d devour each other in a heartbeat. Some may argue that that’s what we have in America today. I’d like to believe not.
So what have you learned?
Think about the following questions:
- Have you forgotten the "losses?"
- Have the lessons you’ve learned taken root? In other words, are you a changed person?
- Has your level of empathy risen? Do you care about someone whose facing what you’ve faced?
- Do you value the time you have left?
As a man who lost his great paying job of 17+ years, and is now over two months unemployed, I must say that post really hit home with me.
Thanks for the reminder to keep the life lessons in mind and the life “losses” in persective, and I really appreciate your kind words of encoragement when I see you.