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This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of learning from your experiences (today and every day)

Comment from Marie: As the saying goes, to err is human, and all of us, I don't care how wonderful you are, make mistakes. We may do or say something without thinking, and then realize, oops, that wasn't kind. Or we may do or say something intentionally because we are "pissed off" and just want to "get even" or get it out of our system. Or perhaps the little green-monster of envy is showing its fangs. And we learn from experience where that leads us -- nowhere happy.

Another common expression says you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. While I'm not into catching flies much, LOL, the principle stands. When you are kind and caring towards others, you get the same in response. If you are rude, selfish, and uncaring... you get the same... So it's up to us to create the life we desire by choosing our words and actions. Do we want to live from a higher vibration or a lower one? The resultant life  will be based on what we've chosen.

In today's inspiration (and the article it was excepted from) we get an example of how a divorce affects the children involved very differently if we take the high road rather than the low road (getting even, feeling angry, not cooperating with our ex-spouse, etc.) And as always, it's our choice... we get to choose how we behave which will affect the response we get from others.

InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration

September 18, 2024

The focus for today is:

I learn from my mistakes.

Today's inspiration was written by Darlene Taylor:

As I muddled my way through the divorce, I wasn’t really aware of the moments that our rules were being written, but in hindsight, I see that there were four main ingredients that we would have to have if we were to be successful co-parents.

Like many important discoveries, we stumbled on them by accident, by doing the wrong thing a couple of times before figuring it out.

But once we did, the ride suddenly got a whole lot smoother.

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RELATED BOOK: It's Not About Us

It's Not About Us: A Co-parenting Survival Guide to Taking the High Road
by Darlene Taylor.

Part memoir, part survival guide, It’s Not About Us shares with hilarious honesty her imperfect attempts at forging a new path for her family after divorce. Darlene Taylor provides 15 nuggets of co-parenting wisdom, including: * When to make decisions solo and when to consult your ex; * The worst thing children of divorce beg you not to do; * How family and friends can help; * The surprising lesson from a boyfriend’s ex-wife; * The most impactful decision you can make.

For more info and/or to order this book, click here.  Also available as an Audiobook, Hardback, and Kindle edition. 

About the Author

DARLENE TAYLOR is a first-time author whose superpower is helping people see the very best in themselves and achieve things they never thought possible. Since 2010 she has worked as the conductor of the crazy train called postdivorce parenting, hoping that her ten years of experience as a clinical social worker would keep the train from derail­ing. She has managed to keep the train on the tracks while rocking out this mom thing, shaping young minds as a gender studies professor at the University of Cincinnati, and helping people become the best versions of themselves as a personal trainer and wellness coach. These days, she is doing her part to leave the world better than she found it through her work as a diversity consultant. Visit her website at DarleneTaylor.com