Fail forward rather than crumble down.
Failure, while tough at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nevertheless there is another crucial element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I'd like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is an element of life and good lord have I made a lot of mistakes in mine. You mention it, I've surely have done it. Fact is, every one of us has made numerous mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go together. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are extremely important to our development and growth into becoming someone better. You can learn a lot from succeeding, but you can learn a whole lot more from things that don't work.
Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times then he may have in nailing the light bulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What really mattered though, was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anybody, that it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be surrounded in light. He eventually was.
We're going to screw up. We will have momenst where we are to snap, push the people away we love, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash decisions, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our character, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the blunders we're going to make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can honestly be fixed into failures, which take lots of superglue and Gorilla tape to fix, it is because we didn't own up to what we have done.
Own it.
This is when we honestly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the toughest things to have a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the strongest things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the problems, now, we have to do what really is important to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt somebody else, then it is even more critical to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are, or how fearful you are, fix it. Possibilities are, if you honestly speak from your heart and you are honest, they'll forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to fail forward from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the bravery to act.
Failure, while tough at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nevertheless there is another crucial element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I'd like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is an element of life and good lord have I made a lot of mistakes in mine. You mention it, I've surely have done it. Fact is, every one of us has made numerous mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go together. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are extremely important to our development and growth into becoming someone better. You can learn a lot from succeeding, but you can learn a whole lot more from things that don't work.
Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times then he may have in nailing the light bulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What really mattered though, was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anybody, that it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be surrounded in light. He eventually was.
We're going to screw up. We will have momenst where we are to snap, push the people away we love, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash decisions, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our character, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the blunders we're going to make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can honestly be fixed into failures, which take lots of superglue and Gorilla tape to fix, it is because we didn't own up to what we have done.
Own it.
This is when we honestly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the toughest things to have a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the strongest things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the problems, now, we have to do what really is important to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt somebody else, then it is even more critical to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are, or how fearful you are, fix it. Possibilities are, if you honestly speak from your heart and you are honest, they'll forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to fail forward from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the bravery to act.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author of The Words Of Encouragement, a website dedicated to bringing the best quotes, motivational content on the web, and blogs all to one place. Feeling ready to take the journey of your life? Dive into these life is too short quotes to explore the meaning of living in the present!
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