I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I would frame my success and failures to my daughters as I impart the wisdom of the world on them during their development.
I feel more stressed than I had ever imagined I would for my daughters, when I identify myself as a fairly successful yet still highly stressed female professional, mom, spouse, sister, daughter, aunt and friend. Sometimes my identity as a trying to be everything woman is too much to process, and I know I have to hide my angst from my girls. So I’m angry. Tired. Angry that I’m tired, and angry that I’m living in this world. As if there is something better out there!
And so I have to reset my expectations, remember I’m a pioneer in 2017, and that we have work to do.
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Frame your successes and failures, as if you are telling a story of hope. It sounds a lot different when the context is more positive, including the use of language. And it’s much much easier to believe in, and make your reality.
Be kind. Be safe. Be appropriate. Now go!
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