Advice From Beyond

I’ve been reading through my previous blogs in an attempt to archive and organise. In doing so I frequently bump into comments from my friend Steve Byrne who, as I mentioned a few days ago, has just passed away. All sorts of little encouragements, and “Steve-isms” to be found there. I’m going to miss them too.

Here’s one little piece of practical advice he dropped. It felt a little bit like Advice From Beyond.

“If you take the time to write down all your failures in your chosen field, and then your successes, you will find the failures far exceed the successes. If you then get someone else to look at the list they will add to your successes and cross out most of your failures. You have achieved more than you realise”.

Steve was always crossing out my failures, and reminding me of my successes. I’d like to get into the habit of doing that more myself. It would feel like I’d be honouring his memory in the process.