Stub Your Toe

We generally try to walk without trouble. Right? It's something we do consistently and usually without thinking.

What happens when we stub our toe? It usually hurts for a little while, especially right after it happens. We "fail" at walking smoothly.

Similar to walking, in the rest of work and life, we sometimes fail or at least perceive it as a failure.

I recently recalled that I flunked physics my first semester in college (yikes!). Up until that point, I planned to be an attorney (too long of a story about the connection between a math degree, freshman physics and law school). That fateful grade sent me to the business school and down a very different path from when I started the journey.

Stubbing my toe in the classroom stung. I had never experienced such a "failure" in school. Had that not happened, my life would have likely turned out quite different.

When have you stubbed your toe?

Was it losing on the court, field, or pitch?

Or maybe forgetting to fully plug a laptop cord into it's power source?

Or perhaps saying something out loud that you wished you had kept to yourself?

In the split second between when you stub your toe and react, you can make a choice.

When something goes different than you want, perhaps you can laugh at yourself and the situation. That's a choice.

I'm not great at this.

I stub my toe more than I would like.

Check that, I respond different that I would like, more frequently than I would like.

How do you respond when you stub your toe?

I'm getting better at choosing my response. I dare say, my response is sometimes a developed habit, something I do without thinking.

Kinda like walking.

Create your life.

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