If you are the kind of person who learns from the mistakes of others are you ever lucky you’ve signed up to this site. I have to tell you, when it comes to the mistake department, I got an extra order or two, maybe even three…I’ve actually lost count.
The cool thing is this: I too learn from my mistakes and here’s a big one I’m sharing with you today. I lost my ipod. The new ipod my husband bought me for Christmas, I hadn’t even used it because I couldn’t figure out how to use it, but that’s a whole other story.
I kept it in a special wooden box with, of course, a little elephant embossed on the top of it. I carried it with me wherever I went, I took really good care of it..at least I thought I did until the day I decided I needed to learn how to actually use the silly thing. I searched high, I searched low, I even searched everywhere inbetween high and low: nothing, zip, nada..no luck. I called people to see if I’d left it at work, nope, I emailed my folks to see if I’d left it there, no response. I looked high and low: again, and again, and again. I began obsessing about the stupid ipod until I finally resigned myself to the fact that I was obsessing about a possession and that was kinda dumb. Once I camae to that realization I stopped looking, I wished whomever had found it many years of happy enjoyment and I went back to focusing on work and coaching and other things like checking on my email.
Wait, what was that? A response from my dad? “Yes Jan the ipod is here, we’ll bring it up soon…” Geez are you kidding me? All that craziness and there it was all the time. So, lucky for you, here’s the lesson I learned from that: I made a mistake, a big one, in assuming that the ipod was gone because I did not get an email back right away. If I’d actually picked up the phone, gasp, and called and asked my dad right away I’d have known much sooner that the ipod had not gone awol after all. You know why this is important? Well I’ll tell you right now: it’s important because I realized that I had not asked for something that I really wanted an answer to, I had not reached out and dug a little deeper and really, it was a simple thing to do in the end. This is something that can be rooted in a lot of areas on my life and once I realized that all I had to do was ask well, sharing the lesson again, everything shifted again for me.
Want something? Don’t assume it’s not attainable, ask. It’s actually really easy. Trust me on that one my friends. Now go, be fearless.
