Courage

My Friday thought: Courage to speak up/out in disagreement is important. True courage, however, is seeing our own failings, demanding more of ourselves and implementing a personal change with the aim to improve.

Disagreement can be hard to discuss, especially in a work setting and even more in hierarchal organisations. The benefits are well known and the balance you need to find between adding value and being negative to change/improvement.

The same is true of ourselves, we shouldn't hinder our mental health by looking at all our flaws, but we should reflect on them. Not all at once, nor all the time, but reviewing how we are, or how we reacted and recognising where we could do better. Granting ourselves permission to implement a change to improve, whether than be learning through undertaking a course, re-writing a document after seeing the errors or changing our mind on a decision after seeing others successful do what we didn't think possible.

We should demand better of ourselves, but also remember we learn to walk over time and we should rush ourselves. The journey is different for everyone and how we get to our goals often doesn't matter.