Hearing it through the grapevine

Hearing it through the grapevine is most often ten times worse than plucking up the courage and coming out with it. Especially if it’s bad news.

If you’ve done something wrong and you don’t have the courage to come out and admit it, you better find the courage because the retelling of the story by others will do you no favours.

All the embellishing that people do on your behalf will only make the coming out worse than ever.

The alternative lends itself to garner real trust and respect. Stepping forward, admitting you’ve made a mistake and taking responsibility for your actions is the right thing to do.

It’s hard, it take a lot of courage. But your relationships and your reputation will benefit from it.

It also helps to do it as quickly as possible as well, before the gossip starts.

Just a little tip from myself to remember the next time you think you can get away with a mistake 🙂

Do the hard/right thing and admit to your mistake.