Gratitude Post - March 9, 2023

I'm grateful for second chances!

Second chances are, in my opinion, one of the greatest, and most positive forms of reversed expectations.  

More often than not, we're our own toughest critics.  And we often expect perfection of ourselves, or at least as close to perfect as humanly possible.  As a result of this natural tendency towards perfectionism, if we don't get it perfect we end up beating ourselves up for our failings that we fail to consider that we likely have a second chance available to us.

And if that's not a mentality you struggle with, maybe this next one fits with your internal self-talk.

We know that we're able to begin again, but the thought of starting over is disheartening.  We don't want to have to begin from scratch, don't want to have to redo things that were actually good enough, and we definitely don't want to have to tackle where we made the mistake all over again just in case we're not capable enough to actually be successful.

Though I'm not 100% sure, my bet is one of the above perspectives appears in your own life from time to time.  I know that they seem to take turns in the spotlight on the stage that is my mind.  But, I've learned that those thoughts just aren't true.  In almost every situation, second chances are available.  And as the saying goes, if you're beginning again you're not starting with nothing, you're starting with experience.