Life's a HUGE Learning Curve~

and the tallest ARCH, is where we've suffered painful consequences for our errors.

I’m a generous-hearted individual. I can forgive mistakes and accidents~ but when they spring from carelessness or a lack of personal responsibility, that’s where I draw the line. Anything else is enabling behavior, which deters another’s growth and healing process.

There’s a reason most doctors offices have a sign posted: “If you miss your appointment or fail to give us a 24-hour cancellation notice, your full rate will be charged.” This practice may seem harsh, but when a practitioner reserves a segment of their time for you, they cannot give it to anyone else. When ya don’t show up at your appointed time, you’re stealing money out of their pocket.

We’ve all ‘goofed’ once in a blue moon, and perhaps we can make room for human error in ourselves and others~ but when this kind of thing happens more than a couple of times, are we helping to grow our own integrity or anyone else’s?

If negative consequences for our behaviors didn’t hurt, feel humiliating, or end up being financially costly to us, would we ever feel determined to change them? If you’re a health practitioner who consistently makes allowances and excuses for a patient or client, doesn’t this speak to self-worth deficits in you?

How we do ANYTHING is how we do EVERYTHING. If we’re professionally irresponsible, we’re personally irresponsible~ and vice-versa. Lack of respect for and sensitivity to others in one arena, means lack of respect and sensitivity in ALL arenas.

One thing’s for certain under these conditions: We’ll keep attracting under-satisfying or painful outcomes the rest of our life, if we keep rewarding ‘Bad Behavior’ by not holding ourselves and others accountable for careless, irresponsible acts.