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 really is another vital 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 plenty of mistakes in mine. You mention it, I've probably done it. Fact is, all of us have made countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go together. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nevertheless, they truly are crucial 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 electric-light bulb in the 1st try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing 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 deter him. He knew, better than anybody, that it was all just a part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He eventually was.
We're going to screw up. We are going to snap, push the people away we adore, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash choices, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our true character, 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 unending of the mistakes we're going to make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can honestly be fixed into failures, which take heaps 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 most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the strongest things we possess.
We should truly expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the problems, now, we have got 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 are, 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 rise from your mistakes and grow.
Honesty is a great foundation to build your life upon.
Have the fearlessness 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 really is another vital 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 plenty of mistakes in mine. You mention it, I've probably done it. Fact is, all of us have made countless mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and disasters go together. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much lesser scale. Nevertheless, they truly are crucial 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 electric-light bulb in the 1st try. He wouldn't have gone on to be the amazing 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 deter him. He knew, better than anybody, that it was all just a part of the journey and at the end he would be encircled in light. He eventually was.
We're going to screw up. We are going to snap, push the people away we adore, ask for things we assumed we wanted, make rash choices, hurt those close to us, do things that are out of our true character, 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 unending of the mistakes we're going to make in our lives. But when we turn mistakes which can honestly be fixed into failures, which take heaps 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 most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have done something wrong, and I am really going to mend it. I have let myself down." But as hard as that is, our owning up to mistakes is one of the strongest things we possess.
We should truly expect better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the problems, now, we have got 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 are, 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 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!
