By: Graham Southwell

Graham Southwell — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:24:06 +0000

I have just come across the following paragraph in Steven Covey’s book – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgement. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intentioned, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

By: Graham Southwell

Graham Southwell — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:13:36 +0000

Interesting article Mark. I am wondering about the idea of letting go of past mistakes – not letting them continue to control your current life. I cant help but think that one important step in this process is to take ownership/responsibility for your past mistakes. To ‘man up’ as it were – yes, you stuffed up AND, you have moved forward. I can forgive anyone for a mistake – but what I find hard to do is to suffer someone who blames everyone else for what happened – these are the ones who I have a deep suspicion of – that they are simply trying to re-package themselves and who are likely to do the same things over and over.

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By: Graham Southwell

By: Graham Southwell