🌱🔄🛠️Why Embrace Correction

The Unseen Guide

Dear Why Team member,

I hope this week’s message finds you well and open to correction.

Why do most of us have issue with correction?  Doesn’t a child need correction to become a well-adjusted adult?  What happens when we fail to correct a child?  Do they not grow up to be maladjusted?  While it’s difficult to be corrected, is it not best for the child? When did we so-called adults arrive at the idea that we are now beyond correction?

The know-it-all rarely learns at all.

For many years, I have, and still do, invite, and accept correction.  I love to learn - and I am not afraid to be wrong.  I want to know my blind spots, where I can improve, how I may become better for myself and others.

For example, I ask family and friends to correct my speech if they notice words misused or mispronounced.  How am I to become a better speaker without correction?!  While I have given over 700 professional speeches the past 18 years, just now, this year, I finished a Stage Performance Mastery course with Heroic Public Speaking.

Why did I take the course? To learn, to grow, to improve, to receive correction; by me being better prepared, my audiences will hopefully receive a more impactful experience.

Have you ever considered that both an airplane and a ship are rarely ever ON COURSE, they are constantly correcting.  Without correction on the journey, we likely may end up on the wrong shore.

Yes, correction hurts, but are corrections happening to us or are they happening for us?  How may we work corrections to good - how may we learn from corrections?  By embracing them all the more on our life’s journey.

Consider how most people feel about correction.  How do you feel about correction?  Maybe those who resist correction suffer most in life while those who embrace correction benefit most in life.  How about we embrace correction, invite correction, and even invest more resources, time, and energy into the opportunities corrections provide?!

I highly recommend coaches and mentors - we can’t see the picture when we’re in the frame.  How many of us could benefit from a new perspective?

Consider shifting your relationship with, and your attitude toward, corrections.  Embracing corrections is to embrace life and its constant gifts of the unexpected - most often a gifted course correction to help us reach a better destination.

Yes, corrections can hurt, certainly our pride - but does not pride often come before a fall?  Best to correct sooner than later - consider a coach to assist you with corrections - to help you stay on course for the destinations you most aspire to reach.  Correcting more to become more!

Make it a great week!

Steve Luckenbach