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.
This is about making mistakes.
Making mistakes is just as much as a part of the game as full blown failures. They are inevitable and even though they are on a much lesser scale than failures, they matter just as much. We have all made mistakes in our lives and they serve as crucial course correctors on our path if we let them teach us.
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 truly mattered though was the undeniable 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 surrounded in light. He eventually was.
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 your mistakes. Take full responsibility for them. Know that your mistakes are a natural part of life and that they don't have to be things that completely destroy your character. When you own your mistakes, to yourself and to others, you are free from guilt.
When we create our problems, we have to fix them. That's what a responsible and goal driven person will do every single time. Without taking responsibility, we will suffer the consequences.
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.
This is about making mistakes.
Making mistakes is just as much as a part of the game as full blown failures. They are inevitable and even though they are on a much lesser scale than failures, they matter just as much. We have all made mistakes in our lives and they serve as crucial course correctors on our path if we let them teach us.
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 truly mattered though was the undeniable 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 surrounded in light. He eventually was.
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 your mistakes. Take full responsibility for them. Know that your mistakes are a natural part of life and that they don't have to be things that completely destroy your character. When you own your mistakes, to yourself and to others, you are free from guilt.
When we create our problems, we have to fix them. That's what a responsible and goal driven person will do every single time. Without taking responsibility, we will suffer the consequences.
Own your path.
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