Guilt! It's Good For You!

InnerSelf.com - Daily Inspiration:

• "Guilt is good for you, provided it lasts no longer than five minutes and it brings about a change in behavior."
  
  
• Guilt, when applied to behavior, is the little alarm system that tells us when we are not living up to our own standards.
  
• Guilt is what we feel when we have let ourselves down.
  
  
• It takes a determination to do better next time to allow us to put guilt away.
  
• Next time we may fail again, but if we truly wish to change our behavior, eventually we will succeed.
  
  by Richard O'Connor.