grace

There is a lightness and unexpected joy that comes with owning your own mistakes.

This morning I had a Skype session with a fantastic new client and then right at the end of our hour together I called her the wrong name. I knew her name, but something else came out instead, just as I was hanging up. Agh mortified! But when I emailed her in follow up, I simply explained and apologised.

Later, I rang our library and told them that I’d left three books up a mountain. I offered to pay for them but they told me that instead, they could renew the books for four months, until it was winter and I went skiing again. Super!

And last night, I was having a conversation with My Lovely One, putting across my opinion blah blah blah. When he made a point and I realised he was spot on [and that I was way off]. And so I told him he was right and that I was actually just being a goose.

I would never advocate going through life apologising unnecessarily. But I do believe in responding to mistakes with grace.

Tags: choices, courage, happiness, values