Fail forward rather than crumble down.
Failure, while tough at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
However, there's another critical component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is an element of life and good lord have I made a large amount of mistakes in mine. You name it, I've probably done it. Fact is, every one of us has made endless amounts of mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go hand in hand. A great deal of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nonetheless, they truly are extremely important to our growth and development into becoming someone better. You can learn plenty 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 could have in nailing the electric-light bulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What truly mattered though, was the indisputable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all just 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 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 guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the blunders we'll make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can sometimes be fixed into failures, which take masses of superglue and Gorilla 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's one of the hardest things to have a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have made a mistake, and I am really going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as tough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is among 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 to do what's important to fix them. Take full ownership. If you have hurt someone else, then it is even more imperative to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you happen to be or how fearful you are, fix it. Chances are, if you speak 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 fearlessness to act.
Failure, while tough at times, is one of our greatest opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
However, there's another critical component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would like to talk about our mistakes. Making mistakes is an element of life and good lord have I made a large amount of mistakes in mine. You name it, I've probably done it. Fact is, every one of us has made endless amounts of mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go hand in hand. A great deal of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nonetheless, they truly are extremely important to our growth and development into becoming someone better. You can learn plenty 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 could have in nailing the electric-light bulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What truly mattered though, was the indisputable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all just 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 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 guarantees, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is never-ending of the blunders we'll make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can sometimes be fixed into failures, which take masses of superglue and Gorilla 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's one of the hardest things to have a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have made a mistake, and I am really going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as tough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is among 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 to do what's important to fix them. Take full ownership. If you have hurt someone else, then it is even more imperative to own up to what done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you happen to be or how fearful you are, fix it. Chances are, if you speak 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 fearlessness 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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