We Can’t Handle the Truth

Only Happy as you make Yourself to Be

Only Happy as you make Yourself to Be

 

Have you ever realized you’re great at telling everybody the truth, but yourself? You put others under a powerful NASA microscope and yet when you take a good hard look at you, it’s from atop the Goodyear Blimp.

Yep, that’s me. I can spot that blemish on someone’s face, that character flaw that’s holding her back, or that outfit that makes him look a little like Shamu after eating a school of krill – but when it comes to myself, I tend to plead complete ignorance….

To read the rest of this post head over to the fabulous Michelle Ward, the When I Grow Up Coach, where I had the immense privilege of guest posting today. I promise you won’t regret the e-journey. Why are you still reading this?? GO here.

 

2 Comments

  1. April

    Great essay! The more I think about it, it’s slowly but surely becoming my lifelong ambition to stop judging other people. But the more serious I get about it, the more I realize just how far I have to go…!

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    • admin

      Thanks April. Couldn’t agree more. If people just didn’t have so many amazingly apparent flaws and I wasn’t so perfect, it would be so much easier not to judge them…J/k…and all that…

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