Don't fall completely apart when you fail. Instead, build yourself a new story.
Failure can be devastating. Failure can literally make you want to fall into pieces. One of the hardest things to do is invest your heart and your soul into something that you are working on and watch it fall apart in front of your eyes. But that's part of the game. This article is about something much more minor but just as critical to your future success.
Mistakes.
Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.
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 really made Edison a massive success is that he didn't let his mistakes or failures define who he was. He didn't allow them to make him a failure. Instead, he stayed determined on his path and ended up lighting the world up - quite literally.
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 avoid this?
Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard 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 hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone 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 are or how scared you are, fix it.
Own your path.
Failure can be devastating. Failure can literally make you want to fall into pieces. One of the hardest things to do is invest your heart and your soul into something that you are working on and watch it fall apart in front of your eyes. But that's part of the game. This article is about something much more minor but just as critical to your future success.
Mistakes.
Making mistakes is part of life and good lord do we make al to of them. Fact is all of us have made numerous mistakes which become the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go side by side. Most of the time though our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. However, they are just as crucial to our growth and development as all out failure in becoming someone better.
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 really made Edison a massive success is that he didn't let his mistakes or failures define who he was. He didn't allow them to make him a failure. Instead, he stayed determined on his path and ended up lighting the world up - quite literally.
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 avoid this?
Own it. Own your mistakes. This is when we truly learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the hardest things in the world to take a good hard 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 hard as that is our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most powerful things we possess.
We should expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility. We created the problems now we have got to do what's critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone 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 are or how scared you are, fix it.
Own your path.
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