Stop Apologizing for Pursuing a Successful Life - labanjohnson.com/stop-apolog… have been taught to color between the lines from an early age. Conformity is seen as normal, and making waves, labels someone as high maintenance because they’re not “going with the flow.” As success-min...
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Someone told me to stop apologizing at all. It was a wake-up call and I practice it unless I fully believe I breach it. The term I'm sorry has about as much as meaning as Stairway to Heaven
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Yes I've been told that, as well. I'm sorry = regret which is negative karma, a burden being carried, a limitation accepted. Plus, it is a focus on the past instead of being in the present, the only place we can make a difference now
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Replying to @labanjohnson
This is why you'll rarely hear a person who grew up in New York or New Jersey say I'm sorry. They will say oh I messed up but there is a certain ilk perhaps class related from which I come from where I'm sorry it's not something that is ever said.

Dec 28, 2020 · 5:56 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
It's rarely the action we regret but the unintended consequences which we could not foresee. That said, the more emotionally intelligent I become the more I find myself saying "I'm sorry" because it makes people feel better :)
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Well consider me emotionally unintelligent because I don't care about making people feel better when they do terrible things. If I'm sorry I will say it. But I'm brooklyn-born New Jersey girl that ain't changing anytime soon. It is my armor it's my shield. I need my superpowers.
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