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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 is about making mistakes.
Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.
You can learn a lot from succeeding but you can learn a whole lot more from things that don't really work out the first time. Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times than he would have in nailing the light bulb in the 1st try. He probably wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing inventor he was if he didn't fail so much.
What truly mattered though was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes discourage him. He knew better than anyone that it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be surrounded in light. He eventually was.
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.
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 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 is about making mistakes.
Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.
You can learn a lot from succeeding but you can learn a whole lot more from things that don't really work out the first time. Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times than he would have in nailing the light bulb in the 1st try. He probably wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing inventor he was if he didn't fail so much.
What truly mattered though was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes discourage him. He knew better than anyone that it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be surrounded in light. He eventually was.
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.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon. Have the bravery to act.
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