What you do next

August 12, 2010

You've just put your foot in your mouth.

Stepped in it.

Given into a hurtful impulse.

Blown your top.

What matters, however, is what you do next. In fact, it's the only thing that matters.

Some people spend a lifetime regretting a wrong move, a mistake, a missed opportunity. Feeling bad? Showing remorse? Punishing yourself? Just ways of trying to make it look like you care, and all of them distractions from doing what's next.