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.
Nevertheless there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I want 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 say it, I've most likely done it. Fact is, every one of us has made numerous mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go hand in hand. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. However, they're crucial to our development and growth 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 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 actually mattered though, was the indisputable fact that he didn't let his mistakes deter him. He knew, better than anybody, that it was all a part of the journey and at the end he would be illuminated in light. He eventually was.
We are going to make mistakes. We will have momenst where we are to snap, push the people away we care for, ask for things we thought 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 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 honestly 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 really learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I am going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as rough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most honest and powerful things we possess.
We should be expecting better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the conflicts, now, we have to do what really is necessary to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt someone else, then it is even more imperative to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you happen to be or how terrified you are, fix it. Probabilities 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 chances to grow and elevate ourselves in our pursuit of achieving our goals and dreams.
Nevertheless there's another vital component to the equation of failure that we don't really cover that much. I want 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 say it, I've most likely done it. Fact is, every one of us has made numerous mistakes which are the events that shape our lives. Mistakes and mess ups go hand in hand. Much of the time though, our mistakes are on a much softer scale. However, they're crucial to our development and growth 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 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 actually mattered though, was the indisputable fact that he didn't let his mistakes deter him. He knew, better than anybody, that it was all a part of the journey and at the end he would be illuminated in light. He eventually was.
We are going to make mistakes. We will have momenst where we are to snap, push the people away we care for, ask for things we thought 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 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 honestly 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 really learn. This is when we grow. It's one of the most challenging things to take a look at yourself in the mirror and say "I have gotten something wrong, and I am going to take care of it. I have let myself down." But as rough as that is, our owning up to mistakes is probably one of the most honest and powerful things we possess.
We should be expecting better out of ourselves than to cower away by not taking responsibility.
We created the conflicts, now, we have to do what really is necessary to fix them. Take full-blown ownership. If you have hurt someone else, then it is even more imperative to own up to what you have done and fix it. It doesn't matter how embarrassed you happen to be or how terrified you are, fix it. Probabilities 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!
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