Fail forward rather than crumble down.
Failure, while difficult at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nevertheless there's another crucial part to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is a part of life and good lord have I made plenty 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 disasters go hand in hand. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. However, they are important to our shaping into becoming better. You can learn a lot from succeeding, but you can learn a load 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 light bulb in the 1st try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the extraordinary inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What actually mattered though, was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anybody, that this was all part of the journey and at the end he would be illuminated in light. He eventually was.
We are going to mess up. We're going to snap, push the people away we adore, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash calls, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our personality, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break our promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can sometimes be fixed into failures, which take masses of superglue and duct 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 happens to be one of the toughest things to have a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as tough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is among the strongest 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 really is critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else, then it is even more important 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 speak from your heart and you are honest, they'll forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to fail forward 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 opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nevertheless there's another crucial part to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is a part of life and good lord have I made plenty 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 disasters go hand in hand. Most of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. However, they are important to our shaping into becoming better. You can learn a lot from succeeding, but you can learn a load 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 light bulb in the 1st try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the extraordinary inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What actually mattered though, was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anybody, that this was all part of the journey and at the end he would be illuminated in light. He eventually was.
We are going to mess up. We're going to snap, push the people away we adore, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash calls, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our personality, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break our promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can sometimes be fixed into failures, which take masses of superglue and duct 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 happens to be one of the toughest things to have a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I'm going to fix it. I have let myself down." But as tough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is among the strongest 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 really is critical to fix them. Take ownership. If you have hurt someone else, then it is even more important 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 speak from your heart and you are honest, they'll forgive you. You owe them an apology, and most of all, you owe it to yourself to fail forward 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!