Powerful Feedback – Ideal For Greater Clarity & Improving You To Your Full Potential

Do I encourage feedback? If you are human you will understand how it feels to receive feedback, whether positive or negative. Feedback and criticism can be hard to swallow but, it’s essential if you want to make powerful improvements and progress in life. What feedback we choose to listen to, and how we handle and respond to it is critical.

Why? The reality we live in is directly a creation of how we choose to interact with it. There is a great quote by Charles R. Swindoll thats states, “life is 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react to it.” As this relates to feedback I suggest how you react to feedback is more important than the feedback itself.

There are those that will try break our joy, bring us down and criticise us for what we do without any constructive thought to help us improve. The do this out envy, reasons to try protect us from their own perceived self-harm, or just because they are caught up in their own negative reality, one that holds them to the victimhood.

Be aware of these people and try avoid them. Remember that all feedback and criticism is someone else’s external perception of you. It may be based on facts, it may be based on assumption or opinion. For whatever the case it is out of your control. Again, what is in our control is how we react to it.

Constructive feedback or criticism with a purpose other than those mentioned above can be powerful. Feedback in any form allows us to reflect and in reflection can we become more aware. When we are more highly aware we can make greater decisions. This is because we have now more insight from an external source that we may have been blinded to see ourselves.

External perspective doesn’t mean its right or wrong, it is just that – perspective. Use it to improve yourself but don’t use it to change who you are. Be warned, your ego – that is the belief of who you are, will try defend itself from external feedback especially if it aims to harm your ego. Your ego will stop you form taking on the feedback in its purest form and any benefits that may populate from it. Move beyond this and reflect deeper towards your soul.

I value my continual self-improvement. In efforts to become the best potential I can be in life I listen to constructive feedback and draw from it the powerful benefits it can have.

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” Ken Blanchard.