Fail forward rather than crumble down.
Failure, while difficult at times, is one of our greatest moments to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nonetheless there's another vital element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is part 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 countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and failures go together. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. Nevertheless, they're important to our growth and development into becoming better. You can learn plenty from succeeding, but you can learn a load 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 lightbulb 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 incontrovertible fact that he didn't let his mistakes discourage him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He ultimately was.
We're going to mess up. We will have momenst where we are to snap, push the people away we adore, ask for things we thought 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 promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the types of mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can often be fixed into failures, which take heaps of superglue and Gorilla tape to fix, it is often because we didn't own up to what we have done.
Own it.
This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It is one of the most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have made a mistake, and I'm going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as tough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the strongest things we possess.
We should be expecting better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the conflicts, now, we should do what's critical to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt somebody 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 happen to be or how fearful you are, fix it. Possibilities are, if you speak from your heart and you are truly honest, they're going to forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to learn from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the fearlessness to act.
Failure, while difficult at times, is one of our greatest moments to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nonetheless there's another vital element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is part 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 countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and failures go together. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. Nevertheless, they're important to our growth and development into becoming better. You can learn plenty from succeeding, but you can learn a load 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 lightbulb 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 incontrovertible fact that he didn't let his mistakes discourage him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He ultimately was.
We're going to mess up. We will have momenst where we are to snap, push the people away we adore, ask for things we thought 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 promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the types of mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can often be fixed into failures, which take heaps of superglue and Gorilla tape to fix, it is often because we didn't own up to what we have done.
Own it.
This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It is one of the most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have made a mistake, and I'm going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as tough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the strongest things we possess.
We should be expecting better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the conflicts, now, we should do what's critical to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt somebody 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 happen to be or how fearful you are, fix it. Possibilities are, if you speak from your heart and you are truly honest, they're going to forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to learn from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the fearlessness 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!
No comments:
Post a Comment