It feels like many of us live our lives to avoid confrontation and criticism to protect our emotions. Sometimes, if we are doing something that brings us closer to our goal and someone you value and respect gives you feedback, we can choose to feel threatened and stop what we are doing, or see it as an opportunity to grow and improve. Here are four ways to view feedback and use it to make yourself better:
- Feedback and criticism can highlight major obstacles in your life that stop you progressing. It can be hard for us to spot our own weaknesses, but it is an absolute gift if you have people who can give you honest direction for improvement.
- Mostly, people are giving you feedback out of concern and support for your success. If the feedback is coming from someone you love and respect, they will have risked offending you to try to help you grow – this takes guts and shows their dedication to helping you!
- Sit back and think about the benefits of implementing their suggestions could bring. If they haven’t managed to give you suggestions, ask them ways in which they think you could change or improve the element that they have brought up, and give it a try for a few days!
- We are not perfect, and the more feedback that we can get from a range of people who interact with us, the better we can be in our business, our interactions and our mindset.
So continue your New Year journey inviting and implementing feedback! It can help to grow stronger, more honest relationship and encourage us to be better as individuals.
LLUMI Australia 