By vulnerable, I don’t mean weak, needy or unable to handle our own affairs. I mean making the voluntary decision to mention a failure, mistake, setback, or poor choice to others within our circle of trust.

I believe that the more we do this – the more we drop the pride act and ask for help – the faster we learn and the faster we can move toward corrective action so that we don’t commit the error again. This doesn’t mean accepting all suggestions or feedback, but instead having the discretion to ferret out the best ones for the circumstance(s) at hand and appropriate them for improvement – while leaving the rest behind.

Every time I do this, I gain a perspective that hadn’t occurred to me, and frankly, many of them are golden.