'I Had to Humble Myself'
This can be a powerful realization, in the moment and looking back
Humility isn’t always easy.
Ego likes to crowd it out. Or the pain of our reality becomes too much emotionally to think “humility” much less develop it in a moment or throughout our lives.
“I had to humble myself -- more humbled than I could ever been before... ‘I’m not supposed to be here (suffering with disappointment, frustration, anger, sadness or depression).’ But that’s where I was and I had to grind through it.”
That decision can be a key to a more satisfying future and allow for correction of some defects — tiny, moderate or significant — in our thinking and thus, our actions.
Digging deep within ourselves to be “more humbled than I could ever been before” won’t happen every day and doesn’t have to yet if it can come when necessary, it’s going to have a profound, positive effect in our lives, professionally and personally.
There will be times in life where we may — or will — find ourselves in places that we never expected to be, don’t want to be and are suffering, not because of others or what we can’t control, but what we did or didn’t do. When we’re in those undesirable and painful chapters it’s the call to “grind through it” or remain stuck.
This also applies to situations where our reputation has been impacted.
In these circumstances, humility is a way maker, a door opener to protection, improvement, restoration and reconstruction while indifference and arrogance are locks on the doors of our preferred current reality and future.
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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.