Embrace everything

Recently, I took a couple of decisions, and some actions off those decisions, that turned out to be not so great. In fact, they were pretty badly thought out and resulted in one or two people being very unhappy with me.

Once I've written, and you've read, the rest of this post, the fact that I'm being so vague here may seem very hypocritical, but as the method of fixing these bad decisions is to completely remove the associated actions from the internet (no mean feat, but it seems to have worked...), I'm hardly going to blog about it. If you ask me in person though, then I'm happy to tell you.

So, why am I telling you this? Me, the almighty, always right and quite frankly brilliant person? Well, it's actually to avoid some hypocricy. In the discussions with the person involved, I offered them some advice. I won't paste that verbatim below, as it was rather specific, but here's the gist of it:

You should own and embrace every action you take, no matter how positive or negative it is. Overzealous modesty over your achievements is just as harmful as attempting to hide the skeletons in your closet, as it conceals who you really are from the world. People can forgive a whole lot in a person, but the hardest thing to forgive is a breach of trust, and a close runner-up is secrecy and hidden facts. Be open and honest about everything you are - from irresponsible drunken jaunts to your greatest achievements, and not only will you gain respect, but you can also spend your time happily anticipating what is to come, rather than glancing backwards nervously at your past.

The context, by the way, of my poorly taken decision(s), was that I forced that philosophy upon someone, instead of letting them keep secret something they'd rather not have shared with the whole wide world. For most of the people I know who read this blog, it was no-one you know, by the way.

So, think about this...and let me know where that leads you.