Instead of crumbling to pieces when you fail, learn something from it.
Failure can be devastating. Failure can literally make you want to fall into pieces. One of the hardest things to do is invest your heart and your soul into something that you are working on and watch it fall apart in front of your eyes. But that's part of the game. This article is about something much more minor but just as critical to your future success.
This article is about the importance of making mistakes.
Making mistakes is just as much as a part of the game as full blown failures. They are inevitable and even though they are on a much lesser scale than failures, they matter just as much. We have all made mistakes in our lives and they serve as crucial course correctors on our path if we let them teach us.
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 made Edison an innovator is that he didn't allow his past mistakes to define what he could do in this moment. He knew that he would learn from all that he had tried and continued down the path of trying to invent the light bulb. Eventually he did and because of his determination and perseverance he illuminated the world.
We are all going to make mistakes. We are going to mess up. We are going to accidentally tear things apart in our lives. But that doesn't have to be the end result. That doesn't have to be the final move. The most dangerous part about making mistakes is when we turn these mistakes into our failures as a human being. Then, things start to get messy.
So how can you avoid this?
Take complete ownership and responsibility for your mistakes. That's truly the only way to be freed from the natural guilt that will arise if you constantly deny any responsibility for what you have done. When you own the things in your life they don't end up owning you.
When we create our problems, we have to fix them. That's what a responsible and goal driven person will do every single time. Without taking responsibility, we will suffer the consequences.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon. Have the bravery to act.
Failure can be devastating. Failure can literally make you want to fall into pieces. One of the hardest things to do is invest your heart and your soul into something that you are working on and watch it fall apart in front of your eyes. But that's part of the game. This article is about something much more minor but just as critical to your future success.
This article is about the importance of making mistakes.
Making mistakes is just as much as a part of the game as full blown failures. They are inevitable and even though they are on a much lesser scale than failures, they matter just as much. We have all made mistakes in our lives and they serve as crucial course correctors on our path if we let them teach us.
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 made Edison an innovator is that he didn't allow his past mistakes to define what he could do in this moment. He knew that he would learn from all that he had tried and continued down the path of trying to invent the light bulb. Eventually he did and because of his determination and perseverance he illuminated the world.
We are all going to make mistakes. We are going to mess up. We are going to accidentally tear things apart in our lives. But that doesn't have to be the end result. That doesn't have to be the final move. The most dangerous part about making mistakes is when we turn these mistakes into our failures as a human being. Then, things start to get messy.
So how can you avoid this?
Take complete ownership and responsibility for your mistakes. That's truly the only way to be freed from the natural guilt that will arise if you constantly deny any responsibility for what you have done. When you own the things in your life they don't end up owning you.
When we create our problems, we have to fix them. That's what a responsible and goal driven person will do every single time. Without taking responsibility, we will suffer the consequences.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon. Have the bravery to act.
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