Day 192 - A Year to Clear - Observing and Allowing Mistakes
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Lesson 192: Observing and Allowing Mistakes
Today is about making a mistake and doing nothing. That’s right… Nothing. So don’t try to fix it or manage it. Just make the mistake, allow whatever feelings to brew and let that weather pass through. It’s all about observation today.
First of all, it’s a tough act to do nothing when you make a mistake. My gut reaction is to fix it straight away. I don’t usually make mistakes because I have this sort of perfectionist mentality - that I need to try and get it right the first time so there is no points of failure.
As I trace back on my Wednesday, the only thing I forgot to do was check on a report. I had a pretty blasé attitude towards it but I wouldn’t say it’s a mistake I actually care for. Another thing I did was misinterpret a friend’s message that he was cooking dinner for himself, so I had dinner on my own and he actually wanted us to have dinner together. I mean, it didn’t really bother me either because it was a misinterpretation of a text.
I think this exercise would be more useful if I made some major mistake that wronged someone or wronged myself. I know how guilty and bad I would feel in those situations. Plus if I wasn’t allowed to fix it, those feelings would just brew until I could do something about it.
I get that the exercise is to allow awareness to come into play. I get that it’s a lesson that mistakes happen and it’s about acceptance. To do nothing would actually make me feel so uncomfortable. I am always the type to fix my stuff ups.
How did you go with this exercise?