Fail forward rather than crumble down.
Failure, while tough at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
However, there's another crucial component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is a part of life and good lord have I made a large amount of mistakes in mine. You say it, I've probably done it. Fact is, all of us have made countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go together. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. Nonetheless, they truly are extremely important to our development and growth into becoming better. You can learn a lot from succeeding, but you can learn a whole lot more from things that don't work.
Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times then he might have in nailing the lightbulb in the 1st try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the extraordinary inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What really mattered though, was the indisputable fact that he didn't let his mistakes deter him. He knew, better than any person, it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be illuminated in light. He ultimately was.
We are certainly going to mess up. We're going to snap, push the people away we love, ask for things we presumed we wanted, make rash choices, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our personality, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break our promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the types of mistakes we'll 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 honestly 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 done something wrong, and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as rough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is among the most powerful things we possess.
We should be expecting better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the issues, now, we have to do what really is critical to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt some other person, then it is even more imperative to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you happen to be or how afraid you are, fix it. Probabilities are, if you speak from your heart and you are honest, they'll forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to fail forward from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the courage to act.
Failure, while tough at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
However, there's another crucial component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is a part of life and good lord have I made a large amount of mistakes in mine. You say it, I've probably done it. Fact is, all of us have made countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go together. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. Nonetheless, they truly are extremely important to our development and growth into becoming better. You can learn a lot from succeeding, but you can learn a whole lot more from things that don't work.
Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times then he might have in nailing the lightbulb in the 1st try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the extraordinary inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What really mattered though, was the indisputable fact that he didn't let his mistakes deter him. He knew, better than any person, it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be illuminated in light. He ultimately was.
We are certainly going to mess up. We're going to snap, push the people away we love, ask for things we presumed we wanted, make rash choices, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our personality, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break our promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the types of mistakes we'll 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 honestly 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 done something wrong, and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as rough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is among the most powerful things we possess.
We should be expecting better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the issues, now, we have to do what really is critical to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt some other person, then it is even more imperative to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you happen to be or how afraid you are, fix it. Probabilities are, if you speak from your heart and you are honest, they'll forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to fail forward from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the courage 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!
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