Importance of Forgiveness Daily Wake Up Call

Join me while I share my takeaways on the importance of forgiveness. Every day my company holds a “daily wake up” call. It’s pretty interesting, as they rotate different leader to host the calls. It provides a vast, diverse, wealth of information. It’s held M-F, at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Today Mark Halbert spoke about the importance of forgiveness. Here is my takeaway from this mornings call.

Company leader, Mark spoke about the importance of forgiveness, especially when you’re building a business. It doesn’t matter who it is you need to forgive, just that you forgive. When you harbor something against somebody, when you have unforgiveness in your heart, it’s going to impact you. It can impact you in your personal life, and in your business life, regardless of who it’s against.

What he was talking about is that we don’t always need forgiveness for them, we need to forgive people for ourselves. The person that does the forgiving benefits from the forgiveness, not the person that is being forgiven. They may benefit as well, sometimes you don’t even have to let them know. When you carry around the spirit of bitterness it’s like you’re wearing your feelings. It can be heavy, like you’re carrying around all this extra baggage. It keeps you from moving forward, it keeps you stuck in whatever emotion surrounds the unforgiveness. To keep all that inside of you, hurts you. It doesn’t hurt necessarily the other person.

I had a situation once where someone held a grudge against me for years. I never even knew about it. All those years she held a grudge against me it hurt her. It occupied her mind and emotions, and ate at her for years and years. It wasn’t hurting me because I didn’t even know about it. When I did find out about it, I tried to talk with her about it. She didn’t want to talk to me about it. So, okay, I send her a letter. In it I told her that I forgive her for holding the grudge against me because that unforgiveness must be painful for her. Festering for years and years. Crazy huh? It didn’t get her anywhere, and it didn’t effect me. I didn’t want that to be me, I didn’t want to be the one holding the grudge. We never spoke about it but she doesn’t appear to be holding the grudge anymore.