'I Accept I Can't Change the Past'
Not worrying about it and doing something instead is the way through pain
Making errors that end up publicized can be a hard, long road forward to travel. The present and future can be made much easier however by how someone frames their thinking in such times, strategizes their response and follows through.
“I know I am more than my Google search. But I accept that I can’t change the past. At the end of the day, you can only change yourself.”
“If people want to view me (for my old behavior errors), they can do that. All I can do is try my best to change their perspective on that and that’s what I’m doing.”
For most people, they are absolutely more than their Google search findings so what is publicly known hurts and often seems unjust. Nevertheless, the strength to accept what is online and ugly, no matter how difficult emotionally and psychologically, is necessary to move in the direction of improving circumstances.
More reality: people will unfortunately continue to view people guilty of egregious acts in a negative light. Only rarely is that judgment directly improved. Good news: positively influencing other people’s perspectives is possible. Not always fast or palatable yet the way forward.
The quote in this article is communicating that knowing the right path to better days is intelligent, experienced and wise for navigating some of life’s toughest times, as is doing all that is expected and necessary in the minds of others to be judged in a new, better way. It’s the way through the dangerous wilderness of reputation damage.
Michael Toebe writes “Reputation Notes” and is the founder and specialist at Reputation Quality, a practice that serves and assists successful people and organizations in further building reputation as an asset and responsibly, ethically protecting, restoring or reconstructing it.
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