I know that I have touched on this briefly in a couple of my previous posts, however it was recently brought to my attention and I believe it deserves elaboration.

While watching a favorite childhood television show, Boy Meets World, one of the characters gave a speech at graduation. This speech revolved aroung the idea that he could have done better. While reflecting on his time spent at high school he looked back and saw room for improvement in his behavior, grades, and friendships.

I see two important lessons to be learned from this.

One: I think that it is really important to be able to look back on an expirience and have the ability to critique yourself. Too many people are stuck on their idea of what is right that they don't take the time to reflect on themselves or the decisions they have made. I strongly believe that everyone has room for improvement whether you are just graduating high school or own a company. Through self reflection we can only grow.

Two: why wait until after the fact to critically think and examine the choices you are making? If we evaluated our decisions at the time we make them, there would be a smaller margin of error possible. We don't have to wait until we have already messed up to see that something needs to change. By taking initiative and evaluating ourselves regularly we won't have to look back as often and see that we could have done better.