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energy: you can't build on it, it is only want in life and putting in place the
good for wallowing in'. There is some structures to achieve it. Mike can be
merit in Mansfield's view as we can use contacted at
'if only' to justify not doing something. NEW YEAR Donor House
The chatter in our mind tells us; 'if only A 19th century American poet wrote
such and such...then I could 'for all sad words of tongue and pen, the on Lo-call
do/be/succeed in whatever. To wallow in saddest are these: 'it might have been'. 1890-543639
this 'if only' casts us in a victim role and 2016 is coming to its end. As the New or on 01-6205306
in doing so we disable ourselves. By Year beckons many of us sit down and
casting ourselves in the victim role we make New Year's resolutions. If part of or by e-mail:
are blind to the payoffs of remaining in our thinking is 'what might have been' mike@ika.ie
this role. One of the obvious payoffs is or 'if only', can we challenge ourselves
that we do not have to take to see this in a more positive light and
responsibility as we can blame someone use it to risk and to grow? My thanks to the Galway
or something else for the predicament Branch for their invitation to
we find ourselves in. Quotes taken from 'The Book of Regrets' make a presentation at their
A more positive way to see regrets is compiled by Juliet Solomon, published in successful Information Day in
to view them as moments in which we 2007 by JR Books, London. late October.
gained or learned something. In this case
they can provide a kind of compass
leading us on the road of life that lies “WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS;
ahead. Seeing it from this perspective
allows us to use the experience of the BUT WE OFTEN LOOK FOR SO LONG SO REGRETFULLY
falls and bumps of life as a challenge to UPON THE CLOSED DOOR THAT WE DO NOT SEE THE
let go, to take the risk, to wobble and to
grow. In practice, this means taking ONE WHICH HAS OPENED FOR US.”
responsibility for working out what we – Alexander Graham Bell

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