Happy new year.

To start 2023 I’m admitting a mistake. Within the first three months of this conversation I was wrong to use this platform for marketing. I asked you to post content on social media. I’m sorry. The purpose here is more of a conversation between you and I and then, ideally, you practicing or exploring meaningful strategies.

Owning up to being wrong can get you closer to the right thing - for you as well as others. This study was just released on the health consequences of procrastination. Despite being aware matters will be worse, the voluntary choice to delay a course of action is a form of self-regulating failure.

While admitting your wrong may feel like failure, it’s actually recognizing your humanness. And your ability to forgive yourself.

It’s normal to want to avoid pain and moving through pain gets you closer to feeling right.

Practice ideas

1. A past client who worked in construction used the metaphor of “cleaning off the deck” to build the skill of admitting his wrongness. Each night at dinner he and his wife would “keep the deck clean.” What metaphor within your roles might you draw upon? Is there a task with similar rewards to admitting your wrong-doings?

2. Sarah Blakely’s dad empowered both the skill of admitting being wrong and learning from it with the daily dinner-time question “how did you fail big today?” What time of day or which daily situation could you ask this question? Who’s involved? Why? 

From here on forward I plan to be more experimental with my note content. Don’t hesitate to point out when and how I’m wrong. Reply to share anything - comments, critical feedback, a story. While I’m here to support you, I appreciate each opportunity to learn through you, too.