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.
However, there's another crucial 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 large amount of mistakes in mine. You name it, I've most likely done it. Fact is, all of us have made endless amounts of mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go hand in hand. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. Nonetheless, they are extremely important to our shaping into becoming someone 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 light bulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the fantastic 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 paralyze him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all a part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He eventually was.
We are certainly going to mess up. We are going to snap, push the people away we love, ask for things we thought we wanted, make rash decisions, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our personality, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is unending of the mistakes we're going to make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can honestly be fixed into failures, which take lots of superglue and duct tape to fix, it is usually because we didn't own up to what we have done.
Own it.
This is when we really learn. This is when we grow. It is one of the toughest things to have an honest look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as rough 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 have got to do what really is critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt some other person, then it is even more imperative 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 talk from your heart and you are honest, they will 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 bravery 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.
However, there's another crucial 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 large amount of mistakes in mine. You name it, I've most likely done it. Fact is, all of us have made endless amounts of mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go hand in hand. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. Nonetheless, they are extremely important to our shaping into becoming someone 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 light bulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the fantastic 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 paralyze him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all a part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He eventually was.
We are certainly going to mess up. We are going to snap, push the people away we love, ask for things we thought we wanted, make rash decisions, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our personality, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is unending of the mistakes we're going to make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can honestly be fixed into failures, which take lots of superglue and duct tape to fix, it is usually because we didn't own up to what we have done.
Own it.
This is when we really learn. This is when we grow. It is one of the toughest things to have an honest look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as rough 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 have got to do what really is critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt some other person, then it is even more imperative 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 talk from your heart and you are honest, they will 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 bravery 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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