WOW! I WISH I HADN'T SAID THAT!
Have you ever found yourself saying that?” No? Just me? Ha ha ha. Of course you have. When emotions surge, we often do and say stuff we regret.
Like the time I was traveling to Munich on business and had one too many beers, and when my boss and I were chatting and he asked me what I wanted from my career, I said, “Ya know, I think I might want to just get married and have babies.” UG! A possibly pivotal conversation with someone who could help advance your career isn’t the time to float an idea you had a week or so ago. (I was single, so it was likely to be a couple years before I enacted that possibility, and there could have been some great career advancement in those years!)
Or that time I was tired and hungry after speaking and flying and yelled at the person checking me into the hotel because of some relatively small challenge. UG! They didn’t deserve that. But a couple of weeks later, I found myself in a similar situation, and did the same thing! AARGH!
We’ve all had those times when we wish we have one of those doohickies that they have in Men In Black where they can erase people’s memories. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here) Would be nice, wouldn’t it? But alas, everything we do and say, all those emotional overreactions and temper tantrums remain! (Can you believe I once said to someone, "Do you know who I am?" *facepalm*) and the even fun-er problem is, sometimes we find ourselves doing it again…and again!
You can’t erase it, but you can learn from it and do better next time. To do this, I do a thing I like to call
THE REWIND!
(Hey fellow Gen X-ers...remember this kind of rewind? Ha!)
