Instead of crumbling to pieces when you fail, learn something from it.
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.
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.
While you can learn a whole lot from seeing things work you usually are going to learn the most from seeing things not work. Take Edison for example. Edison tried to invent the light bulb over 1,000 times and never succeeded. When he was asked what he learned from failing so much, he simply replied that he had found over a thousand ways not to make a light bulb. That's called learning from your mistakes.
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 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.
How do you avoid that from happening?
Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I have done something wrong and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.
By taking full responsibility for your life, you're going to be able to live the life you were meant to live - guilt free.
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.
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.
While you can learn a whole lot from seeing things work you usually are going to learn the most from seeing things not work. Take Edison for example. Edison tried to invent the light bulb over 1,000 times and never succeeded. When he was asked what he learned from failing so much, he simply replied that he had found over a thousand ways not to make a light bulb. That's called learning from your mistakes.
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 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.
How do you avoid that from happening?
Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I have done something wrong and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.
By taking full responsibility for your life, you're going to be able to live the life you were meant to live - guilt free.
Be the best person you can be. Own your path.
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