How to Embrace Your Inner Fool

There will be times when you make mistakes that matter, it’s probably best you admit responsibility sooner rather than later for these whoopsicals.

I’ll go first…

I’m sorry that if you signed up for the confidence course on Sat/Sun you got sent to a duff page on the website. I was updating the course and forget to hit save. I think I’ve sorted everyone out now. Have I?

Or like the time I dropped a can of sugary coke down a companies complete telephone system thingy-me-do-dah-box that wiped out all the communication between departments for three days. I can’t believe I wasn’t sacked for that, instead I had a Drinks at Desk Company Policy named after me.

Some have streets and schools named after them once they do great things, I have a policy.

Of course there will be moments when you screw up, the easiest words to say here are ‘I’m sorry’ and mean it.

At other times you will just lose all thought and common sense. Fleeting moments of just being urm, a fool.

I remember (because I heard they were pregnant), saying to an acquaintance at a wedding, ‘Congratulations, when are you due?’ and they replied, ‘I had the baby in March’.  As it was then September, I felt ever so foolish.

Or at my first catholic wedding when I thought the words were, ‘Pleased to meet you’, as we went round shaking hands with everyone but they were actually ‘Peace, be with you.’ Fool.

Or the time I gave a presentation with a toilet roll tail. Fool.

Or when I waved at a group of people and jumped up and down like an extra on Glee because I thought I knew them, only to realise I didn’t and then carried out the ‘this is how I scratch my forehead for real action’!

Interviews:  how many people have come out of those slapping the palm of their hand against their forehead screaming, ‘What did I say that for?  Fool! Fool! Fool!’

How do you handle your moments of foolishness?

Embrace?

Or  with disgrace?

I’ll leave you with these before you answer:

“Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.”

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”Colette

“Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.” Cher

Don’t sweat them.

Not a drop.