No, not really. It's much easier to know what you should do than actually do it. With my wife, there are times I'm aware of what my be a more effective way of handling things, but I fail to do it because I'm stubborn, angry, or I'm putting my own needs first. I still have quite a ways to go.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt