Failing Forward And Golden Mistakes

By Evan Sanders


Fail forward rather than crumble down.

Failure, while difficult at times, is one of our greatest chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.

Nonetheless there's another crucial element to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I would 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 mention it, I've most likely done it. Fact is, we have made countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and failures go hand in hand. A great deal of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nonetheless, they truly are important to our development and growth into becoming 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 could have in nailing the lightbulb in the very first try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the fantastic inventor he was if he didn't fail so much. What truly mattered though, was the undeniable fact that he didn't let his mistakes paralyze him. He knew, better than anyone, that this was all part of the journey and at the end he would be surrounded in light. He ultimately was.

We are going to screw up. We are going to snap, push the people away we care for, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash choices, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our character, get wasted, say things we don't mean, break promises, break hearts, hate, fear, talk smack, tear things apart, burn things down, the list is endless of the mistakes we will make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can sometimes be fixed into failures, which take lots 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 truly learn. This is when we grow. It is one of the most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I'm going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is 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 issues, now, we have to do what is necessary to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt some other person, 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 afraid you are, fix it. Probabilities are, if you speak from your heart and you are truthful, they're going to 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 fearlessness to act.




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