We all make mistakes, but when was the last time you enjoyed your mistake?
My dad taught me the importance of having this positive outlook on life to embrace and enjoy your mistakes instead of running from them.
Adopting this mindset can be challenging, but there are four ways to start embracing your mistakes:
- Realize that mistakes are common. Everyone makes mistakes. Realizing that mistakes are common removes some of the pressure to be perfect. Your job isn’t to eliminate mistakes, but to respond properly when mistakes inevitably happen.
- Remember failure is just a state of mind. Failure is ultimately how you think about the mistake you made. It’s just a state of mind and won’t shape your life forever.
- Focus on what you learn. Instead of viewing something as a mistake or failure, ask yourself what you learned. Thomas Edison famously said that he didn’t fail—he just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Shift your perception to see mistakes as learning opportunities.
- Enjoy, laugh, share, and move on. Don’t take mistakes so seriously. Chances are the mistake won’t derail you in the long run. Laugh about it, share the experience with something else, realize it’s not that big of a deal, and keep moving forward.
Everyone makes mistakes. But as we learn to embrace and even enjoy our mistakes, we can keep growing and improving.
I put together a video which talks about this in more detail. Please check it out below and if you want more content like this you can subscribe to my Youtube channel.
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