Fail forward rather than crumble to pieces.
Failure while tough at times, is one of our greatest chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams. However there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much.
This article is about the importance of making mistakes.
The ability to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes is one of the most crucial elements in being able to become a success. While mistakes are not as bad as complete failures, they allow us to course correct without watching everything fall apart. If you can learn from your mistakes and what they are trying to teach you, you can get back on the path you were meant to be on without being knocked off completely.
Successes can teach you a whole lot about life, but mistakes and failures end up being the things that really shape us into who we are. When we learn from what we have not succeeded at it gives us a chance to show up in the world in a completely different way and build a new path for ourselves. If you take Edison for example, he failed over 1,000 times in attempting to create the light bulb, but in the end because he learned from his mistakes, he revolutionized the world.
What really made Edison a massive success is that he didn't let his mistakes or failures define who he was. He didn't allow them to make him a failure. Instead, he stayed determined on his path and ended up lighting the world up - quite literally.
We are going to mess up. We are going to snap and push people away, ask for things we presumed we wanted, and make bad calls that will end up doing some damage in our lives. But when we turn mistakes, which can often be fixed, into failures which take masses of superglue and duct tape to fix, things start to get messy.
How do you avoid that from happening?
Own your mistakes. Take full responsibility for them. Know that your mistakes are a natural part of life and that they don't have to be things that completely destroy your character. When you own your mistakes, to yourself and to others, you are free from guilt.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else then it is even more important to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how scared you are, fix it.
Be the best person you can be. Own your path.
Failure while tough at times, is one of our greatest chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams. However there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much.
This article is about the importance of making mistakes.
The ability to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes is one of the most crucial elements in being able to become a success. While mistakes are not as bad as complete failures, they allow us to course correct without watching everything fall apart. If you can learn from your mistakes and what they are trying to teach you, you can get back on the path you were meant to be on without being knocked off completely.
Successes can teach you a whole lot about life, but mistakes and failures end up being the things that really shape us into who we are. When we learn from what we have not succeeded at it gives us a chance to show up in the world in a completely different way and build a new path for ourselves. If you take Edison for example, he failed over 1,000 times in attempting to create the light bulb, but in the end because he learned from his mistakes, he revolutionized the world.
What really made Edison a massive success is that he didn't let his mistakes or failures define who he was. He didn't allow them to make him a failure. Instead, he stayed determined on his path and ended up lighting the world up - quite literally.
We are going to mess up. We are going to snap and push people away, ask for things we presumed we wanted, and make bad calls that will end up doing some damage in our lives. But when we turn mistakes, which can often be fixed, into failures which take masses of superglue and duct tape to fix, things start to get messy.
How do you avoid that from happening?
Own your mistakes. Take full responsibility for them. Know that your mistakes are a natural part of life and that they don't have to be things that completely destroy your character. When you own your mistakes, to yourself and to others, you are free from guilt.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else then it is even more important to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how scared you are, fix it.
Be the best person you can be. Own your path.
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