Give Yourself (and Others) a Break. The next time you do something that you felt you should not have or you could have done better, chill out. You did the best you can at the moment. No need to beat yourself up thinking you could or should have done better. It is done – you can’t change it. Just try to change how you do it the next time.

Or if a cashier is moving slow or someone that bumped into you at the store, just chill. There’s no need to get your panties in a bunch and take it personal. That cashier probably had one hell of a morning with her kids and she has to come to work to feed her family or that person that brushed up against you, could have been in their heads stressing, worrying or thinking whatever and they did not even know that they hit you! Their actions have nothing to do with you and everything to do with what we have going on outside of your encounter with them.

We are all just human dealing with a lot of other stuff that no one knows about. That person that is moving slow could be grieving silently and that lady that bumped into you could be dealing with the anxiety demons in her head. You truly don’t know what people are going through outside of your interaction with them. They have families to care for, caring for sick loved ones, battling anxiety and depression, illnesses, stressing about bills to pay, long to-do lists, etc. and are trying the very best they can to work with what they got at the moment and we all handle it differently.

The next time you are about to in on yourself for not doing as ‘well’ as you expected or on somebody else for something they did, stop, breathe and remember, we are all trying the best we can to get thru this thing called life. There is no manual or step by step book that gives us a clear path on the choices that we need to make to live the life we want or what we should do when this or that happens. We are all just working with the cards we were dealt and trying to get through it all one day at a time.

Sending you lots of love and hugs,

Jackie