Check out this article I wrote this week for one of my companies, Forever Young Credit Repair. I discuss a few of the myths when it comes to your Credit Report.
Imagination
Life as we know it has changed these past few weeks. Regardless of your opinion on how the COVID-19 virus outbreak is being handled, your life has been impacted some way. For some of us it has more of impact on our daily life than others. But at the end of the day most of us are sitting at home, wanting to get out of the house as we are getting stir crazy.
Last weekend I was sitting in the kitchen having dinner, and listening to music enjoying the company of my friend. We were sitting in this outdated kitchen that is very ugly, but in my mind we were sitting at a Bed & Breakfast in one of my favorite cities, New Orleans, and the music coming from the Sonos speaker in my mind was live music coming from the street performers. Your body may be stuck in your house, but your brain, your imagination, and your thoughts can take you anywhere you want to go.
Remember the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” when Andy got put in solitary confinement and when his time was over and went to the mess hall for a meal, his buddy were asking him how he spent the time? He made mention that he had music, and the one guy was like the warden let you bring the vinyl player down with him, and he said no, it was all in his mind. That is pretty much what we need to be doing now, to keep our sanity and keep us thinking positive and moving forward.
When We Judge
So these past two weeks brought me a pretty good life lesson. We typically like to judge people at their worst while we expect them to judge us on our best.
“Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions.” George W. Bush
We are all guilty of this. I know I am. But me and one of my closest friends had a couple bad days these past two weeks. We both at different times acted out of character. And both times we both were not at our best.
Had either one of us over those two days based our relationship on those two days, we wouldn’t be friends or even be talking to each other right now. I wrote an article about how your best is a sliding scale. Well when that scale is at a low you don’t want others to think this is your norm. When we think of others we should think of them on how they are 90% of the time and not the 10% that isn’t good. We want to be thought of at our best, and we think of ourselves at our best, we should do the same for others.
This is also goes the other way too. If in a personal relationship someone is awful to you more than they are good for you, they should be judge on that, not the 10% of kindness they extend.