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'd 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 surely have done it. Fact is, every one of us has made numerous mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go side by side. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nevertheless, they truly are extremely important to our shaping 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 may have in nailing the electric-light bulb in the first 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 discourage him. He knew, better than anyone, that it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He eventually was.
We are going to screw up. We're going to snap, push the people away we care for, 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 guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is endless of the types of mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can often be fixed into failures, which take masses of superglue and gaffer 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 happens to be one of the hardest things to have an honest look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I'm going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as rough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the most powerful things we possess.
We should truly expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the conflicts, now, we should do what is critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt somebody else, then it is even more critical to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how fearful you are, fix it. Possibilities are, if you honestly speak from your heart and you are truthful, 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 courage 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'd 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 surely have done it. Fact is, every one of us has made numerous mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go side by side. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nevertheless, they truly are extremely important to our shaping 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 may have in nailing the electric-light bulb in the first 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 discourage him. He knew, better than anyone, that it was all part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He eventually was.
We are going to screw up. We're going to snap, push the people away we care for, 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 guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is endless of the types of mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can often be fixed into failures, which take masses of superglue and gaffer 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 happens to be one of the hardest things to have an honest look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I'm going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as rough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the most powerful things we possess.
We should truly expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the conflicts, now, we should do what is critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt somebody else, then it is even more critical to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you are or how fearful you are, fix it. Possibilities are, if you honestly speak from your heart and you are truthful, 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 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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