16. Let the negative stories go
Some of these learnings are not from years and years ago—they are things I’m working on in present time. I was at a lunch just a month or so ago and was aware that I was telling a negative story about someone—and it happened two years ago. As I drove away from that luncheon, I thought—how many years Ann, are you going to tell that story and why. And the big “why” is: Why don’t you let it go?
And then last night talking on the phone to someone who hadn’t heard that particular story, I told it again. And once I was off the phone, I thought again—why tell it? Let it go.
I’m not sure that I need to tell it at all but certainly the first time might be enough.
