Don't fall completely apart when you fail. Instead, build yourself a new story.
Failure can be one of the most brutal things you will ever experience. It's hard to throw yourself fully into something and suffer the consequences of it not working out. But this post is much more than about failure. This past is about another critical component in the route towards success.
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 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 all mess up from time to time, that's inevitable. We are going to have moments where we fail to be ourselves and who we are capable of being. We are going to be "outside of ourselves" sometimes. That's fine and it's a completely natural part of life. The only thing to avoid is to turn these mistakes into our failures as a person. Then, when you become a failure, things get really hard to recover from.
So how can you really stop this from happening?
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.
By taking full responsibility for your life, you're going to be able to live the life you were meant to live - guilt free.
Own your path.
Failure can be one of the most brutal things you will ever experience. It's hard to throw yourself fully into something and suffer the consequences of it not working out. But this post is much more than about failure. This past is about another critical component in the route towards success.
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 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 all mess up from time to time, that's inevitable. We are going to have moments where we fail to be ourselves and who we are capable of being. We are going to be "outside of ourselves" sometimes. That's fine and it's a completely natural part of life. The only thing to avoid is to turn these mistakes into our failures as a person. Then, when you become a failure, things get really hard to recover from.
So how can you really stop this from happening?
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.
By taking full responsibility for your life, you're going to be able to live the life you were meant to live - guilt free.
Own your path.
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