SLIP

So tonight in our meeting, we were talking about slips.  Ed loves them and tries to use them to his advantage to persuade us to keep listening.

But, I came up with a new acronym to help remind us that slips are simply opportunities to learn!

Stop

Listen

Inspire

Proceed

Stop

when a slip happens, think of it as a stop light.  it is a warning sign that we need to stop and assess what's going on.

Listen

After a slip, we have to listen to what it's trying to teach us.  Every slip has a lesson and it may take us a while to figure out what it is, but it really is just something that we haven't learned yet.

Inspire

A slip can inspire us into motivation.  Maybe it's inspiration comes from reminding us to reach out next time Ed's voice is loud, maybe it inspires us into figuring out what's really going on, or maybe it's the inspiration we need to keep fighting because we're tired of listening to Ed!

Proceed

Just because we slip, it does NOT mean we have to take's Ed's view and let it lead to further slips and relapse.  We CAN keep moving forward because a slip is simply that, a slip.  When you're out walking and you fall, do you just sit there the rest of the day?  NO, you get back up and carry on walking.  The same is true with a slip.

So the next time you slip, remember what it stands for and tell Ed that you're done listening to his perspective!