Own The Wrongdoing. Apologize For It. Correct It. Do Better.
Third, if we determine that the guilt is warranted and we are 100% culpable, then we can and should simply own it; Apologize; try to correct the problem, if possible. Then we can and should borrow from Maya Angelou and say to ourselves, “If I had known better, I would have done better.” Tomorrow is a new day. It’s the first day of the rest of our lives. So let’s do better! Let’s act to prevent it from happening again in the future to us and perhaps others. Each day can be the beginning of a new life, a new us.
Know better and do better.
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Guilt, regret, shame, and worry are not 4 independent stressors, but are often interrelated. They represent a virtual linear cascade that builds in intensity and duration, like a musical crescendo. Which of the 4 do you believe the crescendo is? You’d be surprised.
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