recognise the reality

I was at a meeting yesterday. One with a recruitment agency.....which turned out to be the most professional recruitment consultant I have dealt with.

In any case....we talked and at the end.....he detailed some roles that based on my experience, he strongly believes that I could apply for should I wish. At first I was a bit flabbergasted....me...in those roles.....is he sure? However then I saw what he meant, how to be successful in those roles, it was important to display some of the skills that I have used in my previous roles.

It got me thinking......about how we can sometimes not recognise our own reality, recognise our own worth and strengths (and weakenesses). This is not exactly a failing, more a product of being busy with life, work, home and not taking time out to recognise both our accomplishments and skills, but more importantly their value. The opposite can also be true, in that we should recognise our failings, mistakes, when we hurt people and not brush over and such actions as insignificant. Far from being negative, this helps us learn, learn how to make a weakness a strength and build a more successful and happy life.

All in all, yesterday's meeting brought home how essential it is for us to live in the now, to not exist in our own realities but to be the active player in it.....to enjoy, learn and build on our realities. It is so easy to see so many years go by wasted, in the blink of an eye......to ignore the value of someone or something and not give it/them the deserved attention and value.

The past is past and cannot be undone, the present builds the future which we will live tomorrow :-)