Better fess up to your mistakes

The biggest problem in life is that you never know whether you made the right decision until it's too late.
Whether it's with who to hire, what job to accept, who to live with or when to break up ... you never figure out what the right decision was until you're in so deep that you can't turn around and make it right.
My dad has advised me: "No matter what you do, you'll make some bad decisions. But you better hope you make them while you're young."
Hahaha. Good ol' dad. So true.
It's hard to figure out what's for the best. I like to do pros and cons- I find them very easy to produce and effective. Plus, I believe you relieve stress by writing what you don't like.
If you've weighed your options, hopefully you're smart enough to make the right decision. If you're not, hopefully you're strong enough to live up to your mistake and do what you can to correct it.
I believe most of the world's problems are created because people have been too prideful to own up to their mistakes.
War is stemmed from miscommunication. An enemy is routed from arrogance. A relationship is destroyed because of selfish cowardice.
If you're smart, strong and powerful enough to make a decision, then you should be smart, strong and powerful enough to stick by it, and that means even if your idea fails you. Accept what you did and now make it right.
Live up to your words and people will like you. Make right what you have made wrong, and people will respect you.
This is why I give politicians a lot of credit when they are able to admit when they've made a wrong decision. For example, Hillary infamously voting to go to war. She braced her decision and has told the nation time and time again that she voted incorrectly.
Rationally, all you can do is make the best decision possible at the time, and be man enough/woman enough to make the appropriate changes if things don't go to plan.
What's the point of having a Chief Diplomat (aka: a supposed role of the President) if he only has two foreign policy approaches: he'll talk to leaders who encourage his policies and he'll take out the ones who stand in the way of his (and Big Oil's) success.
I perfect example of a leader stepping up to a mistake (and it wasn't even his misconduct), was the Australian Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd got so much praise after he apologized for how Australia has treated the country's indigenous people, the Aborigines (also known as the Stolen Generations). His predecessor refused to apologize for the Aborigines being the most disadvantaged group in the country.
And Rudd has also stated that he is taking the country's troops out of Iraq. The scary thing is that he started saying that in February. Even scarier is that he thinks the war is a bad idea and no Australian troops have even been killed in Iraq, according to reports.
We've had more than 4,000 deaths and this war has put our country into debt and economic turmoil, and our president and what's left of his "proud" administration still dare to stand by their decision.
Politicians get such positive feedback when they act humanely. It makes you wonder why they don't do it more often. (But how do you expect politicians to act when they all have their degrees in business or law?) When Hillary cried, she received more votes. When politicians own up to their bad judgment calls, the people appreciate it. The people expect their politicians to lie to them, to deceive them, to betray them.
Sympathizing should the new strategy. I want my political leaders to know what they're doing right and what they're doing wrong. I want my political leaders to know who they're hurting and why it's not acceptable. And if a politician doesn't listen ... he or she should get the boot.
See ya, W.
Good luck following that act, Mac.