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.
Nevertheless there's another critical element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I'd like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is an element of life and good lord have I made a large amount 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 hand in hand. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much smaller scale. However, they're important to our development and growth into becoming someone better. You can learn much from succeeding, but you can learn a lot more from things that don't work.
Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times then he could 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 paralyze 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 at last was.
We're going to screw up. We are going to snap, push the people away we care for, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash calls, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our true 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'll make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can often be fixed into failures, which take lots of superglue and gaffer tape to fix, it is 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 toughest things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most honest and powerful things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the issues, now, we have got to do what is necessary to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt someone else, 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. Possibilities are, if you honestly speak from your heart and you are truthful, they're going to forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to rise 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.
Nevertheless there's another critical element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I'd like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is an element of life and good lord have I made a large amount 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 hand in hand. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much smaller scale. However, they're important to our development and growth into becoming someone better. You can learn much from succeeding, but you can learn a lot more from things that don't work.
Edison learned more about electricity in failing over 1,000 times then he could 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 paralyze 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 at last was.
We're going to screw up. We are going to snap, push the people away we care for, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash calls, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our true 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'll make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can often be fixed into failures, which take lots of superglue and gaffer tape to fix, it is 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 toughest things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most honest and powerful things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the issues, now, we have got to do what is necessary to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt someone else, 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. Possibilities are, if you honestly speak from your heart and you are truthful, they're going to forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to rise 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!
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