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Practice acknowledging difficult truths

Practice acknowledging difficult truths

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Practice acknowledging difficult truths

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When you're faced with a painful moment, loss, disappointment or setback, what's your first instinct? For many people, it's to turn away from the truth. This might look like distracting yourself, denying or avoiding the situation, or just telling yourself that it's fine when it's not. This is a very human reaction, but avoidance comes at a cost. When you dodge a difficult reality, you're denying yourself an opportunity to learn, heal, grow, and build resilience. And your feelings about that situation don't just disappear just because you're not feeling them. They get pushed down somewhere within you, and they take up a lot of your energy without you even realizing it. I once worked with an executive who had gotten some difficult to hear feedback from a colleague. His first reaction was to downplay the feedback and just push forward, but he noticed himself having a tough time working that week, and he was avoiding his colleague. When he took a second to sit with what he was feeling, he…

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