Never Hit Your Head With Your Own Bat

Never Hit Your Head With Your Own Bat

Oh yes, this is a no-brainer.  No one amongst us will ever hit our head with our own bat BUT this shouldn't be taken literally.  Instead, we're referring to numerous real life experiences when we ended up with the consequences and outcome arising from our very own mistakes.  The low hanging fruit here is that based on studies, typically, at the very least, 20% of our mistakes could have been averted and avoided.

And that is the regrettable part.  After we end up with mistakes which in the end trigger those 'self inflicted wounds', what happens next is that we will be starting to exert an enormous amount of efforts [and very likely, TIME + $$$] to initially do a 'damage control' because when a wrong decision leads to untold consequences, doing 'damage control'.  And as this Covid pandemic has created a season that leaves all of us inevitably more vulnerable.  Let's think about the presence of isolation.  The heightened use of social media triggering comparisons and the past year has somehow fertilized the very vulnerabilities that can lead to an implosion.

If most of us are akin to an 'average person', we are all having days in which we do struggle.  At times, we will face discouragement. At times, anxiety.  There will be some days when we just want to escape that 'crazy whirlwind' brought about by this long-drawn pandemic.  However, we also need to know that part of maturing and preventing a destructive collapse is learning to tolerate the discomforts and uncertainties in life.

Challenge is how can we avoid hitting ourselves with our own bat ? Hmmm, indeed, isolation, boredom. pride, despair, all these require coping skills. In fact, we need those coping skills everyday in our lives.  We, as average persons, need more coping skill right now than we would have needed prior to this pandemic.  We are in a particularly vulnerable TIME and SPACE and our prevention of self-imposed or self-inflicted wounds or worse, ruin are dependent on our coping skills that we utilize to manage our inevitable vulnerabilities.

If we are concerned about wrecking our life, and you can see present dangers, we encourage you to PAUSE.  Maybe, others have sounded a warning but we are unable to see the problem.  Hey, it won't hurt to pull over and inspect your situation rather than continuing to race ahead.  How do we then inspect our situation ?  Let's take an objective PEEK at our coping skills.  Are they helpful enough ?  Or are they even causing you to spiral ? Reassess your mental state.  Are you hurting so badly that you have lost your care regarding potential consequences ?  Are you responding impulsively ?  Consider your recent PATTERN of decisions.  Are they bordering towards disaster ?  Are you on the brink of another decision ?  Think it over cautiously✅✅✅