Damage Control

Today was one of those days where you pick up the pieces of your week after it has been ravaged.  It was like a twister ripped through this week and scattered debris and farm animals everywhere.  To make a long story short, my mouth wrote a lot of checks this week that my butt couldn't cash.  And now I'm picking up the pieces and tentatively stepping around people to test the waters of their attitudes towards me.

So.  Things learned this week:

1. Think before you speak.  

2. Double think everything that you just thought before you speak.

3. Get more sleep so I can maintain emotional stability.

4. Don't procrastinate 2 huge life-altering steps of a process toward a goal that fall in the same week.

5. If you think you should go home, you should probably just follow that gut instinct and go home.

6. Don't take things so personally, even if they are personal.

7. Take time to write.  The little experiment of testing out how I function if I don't write for a week really didn't do me any good.

8. Learn to take advice with sincerity. 

9. Wait it out.  Patience is a virtue for a reason, and impulse usually leads to a tasty foot in the mouth.

10. Swallow the pride.  It's good for you and full of fiber.