Here's to November!
And no, "Kindsight" is not a typo.
Yes, we've all heard (and no doubt used the phrase more than once) "Hindsight is 20/20". Well of course it is. When we're looking back to a moment, a challenge, a tangled situation that we've weathered, we have many more resources at our fingertips now than we did then.
Having gone through what it took to get to where we are now avails us of wisdom, new ways of being, practices that we didn't have at the time and an outlook that was shaped by the very upheaval we underwent.
Now let's add something else to that mix of what we can draw on when we choose to look back—Kindness. There's a thought…
How many times have we all chastised Our Selves for not knowing what we couldn't possible have known at the time—or for not acting on what we didn't know at the time—or for having an inkling of what was needed, yet being unable to take that step for whatever reason.
Can we not add some kindness to what we were going through, what we didn't know at the time and yet—how it eventually served us—regardless of the clumsiness or lack of savvy in the moment?
When we dare to reframe this common practice of looking back with a hyper critical eye, it adds heartfelt compassion, blunts cruel judgment and opens a path for us to see just how well we did inspite of / because of what we didn't know at the time.
So then the question becomes, how well do You practice "Kindsight" (3:45)?
