Posts Tagged ‘guilt’

Cleaning Up the Wreckage Part V: “Please Forgive Me!”

Monday, May 31st, 2010

In this last installment of five articles focusing on reconciliation and forgiveness, Les discusses the role that asking for forgiveness plays in completing the process that turns a failure (no matter how grave) into a successful growth experience, leading to a deep sense of strength and peace on an intellectual, emotional and (most importantly) a spiritual plane.

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Cleaning Up the Wreckage Part IV: “I Won’t Do It Again”

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

The fourth article in this series of “Cleaning Up Your Wreckage” takes on the deepest levels of pain that we experience from messing up. It’s a pain beyond the embarrassment, guilt and even shame of experiencing our fallibility. It comes from recognizing that, from now on, we have to see and to do things differently.

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Cleaning Up the Wreckage Part I: “I Messed up!”

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Everybody makes a mess from time to time. It’s the price we pay for growth and progress. If we’re wise, we learn from our mistakes; if not, we can wind up paying for them over and over again. In this first of five articles, Les Brown looks at how guilt can become a positive experience.

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Living a Life of Regret

Friday, October 24th, 2008

When you attempt to pass judgment on the decisions you made in the past with the knowledge and experience you have in the present, you’re doing yourself a huge injustice. You can’t know what you don’t know until you know it.

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I’m Sure I’m Terminally Unique

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

How do you go about bridging that seemingly insurmountable gap between you and the rest of the world? Even if you had the words to describe with any semblance of adequacy the feelings you’ve got tightly packaged inside, would there be anybody out there who could possible relate?

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