Posts Tagged With: election day

Day 4690: Lessons learned

Lessons learned by me include:

  • There are no “shoulds” about feelings,
  • It’s never (or rarely) what you expect,
  • I tend to catastrophizing (yesterday I was certain Joan the cat had gotten out and had been eaten by a coyote),
  • It’s okay to promote yourself (e.g., my linking to my song “Catastrophizing” in the previous bullet point),
  • Changes (like resetting the clocks and the Epic medical record system I have to use at work) can cause disruption and frustration,
  • I can survive my own and other people’s mistakes, and
  • I can start sharing pictures on this blog with a minimum of introductory text.

Do you see any lessons learned in my images for today?

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On Use Your Common Sense Day, I am going to use my common sense to vote and to look up “lessons learned” on YouTube:

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Thanks to all who have helped me with lessons learned, including YOU!

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Day 4326: Exactly who we are

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Do you see exactly who we are in my images for today?

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When I search for “exactly who we are” on YouTube, I find this:

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… and this:

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Exactly who I am is somebody who is grateful for YOU.

See you on the other side. 💙

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Day 1773: Regrets

Even though I talk to people about regrets at work, I have never written a blog post with “regrets” in the title. I guess you could say this (almost) five-year-old daily blog has no regrets.

At work — where I practice individual therapy, group therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing —  I invite people to let go of regrets, because regrets are about past actions (or inactions) and we cannot change the past.

In the spirit of the late Peter Sellers — who said that the only regret he had in life was seeing the movie The Magus –– the only regret I have, here and now,  is installing the latest Apple update on my iPhone.  Considering how long I’ve lived, only one regret is pretty good.

I have no regrets about the photos I took yesterday.

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Here’s a Cole Porter tune about regrets, sung by the great Ethel Waters:

Any regrets?  There’s room for them (and anything else) in the comments section below.

Miss Koplow regrets she’s unable to share a new photo expressing her thanks to all who helped her create this post and — of course! — to you. She lets go of that regret by sharing an old photo.

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