“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.”

– African proverb

Where we fall and where we slip are often not the same place. Slipping always occurs before the fall – and therefore happens at a place where there may be something we can do to potentially prevent the fall.

Consider the following:

• Sensing through a body gesture or the tone of someone’s voice that an important conversation is headed to an icy patch.
• You step onto the bathroom scale, or your last physical provides you feedback that your health is headed in an undesirable direction.

Exercise:

What clues is your world sending you daily that indicate a fall may be coming?
How can you learn to avoid the slippery patches in the first place?