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No matter how careful and how focus we are, from time to time, we will make mistakes. We can screw up in the most creative ways, from making wrong business decisions, to forgetting to buy flowers on the anniversary date.
In case you are interested to know how to make a comeback after screwing up at work, check out this article I wrote some times ago. But right now, I want to talk about a different issue.
So what happened recently is, a friend came to me and said she had made a silly mistake at work, by transferring money into a wrong account. It’s easily fixable; all it takes is just making a couple of phone calls and reverse the transaction.
It’s not that much of a big deal, but she still felt so terrible about it and refused to have dinner. I tried to cheer her up but not much luck.
That gets me into thinking. Why can’t she laugh it off? The answer is quite obvious, and that is, she wasn’t able to forgive herself.
You probably have experienced that before too. When you know you could’ve done better, you probably will go self-sabotaging, and beating yourself up.
We all know we can’t make every decision right, but the feeling of guilt will still crawl on our back. In this…
