Are You Ready to Receive the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...Truth About Yourself?

Every woman loves to receive a compliment, even if it’s a lie, we will accept it and carry on like nobody’s business. But when we are told the ugly truth about ourselves, we will whole heartedly disagree. No one likes to be wrong or corrected for their errors, especially, us women (just keeping it real, nod your head yes; even if you lie to everyone else, tell yourself the truth). We always have to be right about EVERYTHING. What woman do you know that doesn’t mind being wrong sometimes? The truth of the matter is we don’t know everything. And there is no such thing as a woman that is all knowing, even if she thinks herself to be so, she is only deceiving herself. Regardless of the titles that we hold, the education that we receive, the grey hairs of wisdom and age, we don’t know it all and never will, not while we’re on earth. 

Solomon was the wisest of them all. There was none like him and there won’t be another after him (Bible, 1 Kings 3:12). And not to say the least, Solomon was a man – so ladies, don’t buy into the hype of those refrigerator magnets that prove us to be right all the time, just because we’re women.

Considering we are human and will constantly make mistakes unknowingly, we should always be open-minded to constructive criticism. If we are constantly told or hear the same things about ourselves, then we need stop being in denial and start taking some self-inventory. There’s a high possibility that everyone could be right and that’s okay because remember, you’re only human and bound to MAKE mistakes. Look at it this way, if you were headed down the wrong street, wouldn’t you want to know, so that you can make a U-turn and head in the right direction? Only a silly woman would continue down the same path after being told repeatedly by different people that she was going the wrong way.

The Bible says that if you give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning (Proverbs 9:9).

A woman that is ready to receive correction will be wiser in life. A wise woman doesn’t mind receiving constructive criticism because she knows that it will only make her wiser. Remember, if you want that promotion on your job, you’re going to have to be open-minded to hear things about yourself that you may not agree with and be ready to step out of your comfort zone.

And besides, no one likes a know it all.

XOXO,

Jay