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Turn
Mistakes into Success
By Mark Cole
If
you’re human, you are going to make mistakes.
I love Denis Waitley’s perspective: “Mistakes are
painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is
called experience.”
John Maxwell says there are two kinds of people in regards
to setbacks: splatters, who hit the bottom, fall apart and stay on the bottom;
and bouncers, who hit rock bottom, pull themselves together, and bounce back
up.
Here are a few thoughts that will help you turn your
mistakes into success.
1. Don’t base your self-worth on your mistakes.
Your value as a human being is found in far more than your
performance. You can become your own worst enemy by telling yourself, “I am
a failure,” or “I’ll never be good enough.”
If
you fail, keep a healthy perspective and coach yourself up. You are not defined
by your worst moments.
2.
Don’t feel sorry for yourself.
When you make a mistake, pick yourself up quickly and get
moving again. If you start to wallow, you might get stuck.
Focus
on the good that you can make out of the difficulty.
Don’t
forget, the experience that you gain from mistakes will serve you well five
years down the road when you are leading someone going through something
similar.
3. Do consider your failures as a process to learn and
improve.
Take the attitude of a scientist: when their work fails,
they just call it an experiment that didn’t work!
It
is amazing how something this simple can change your perspective and attitude
about making a mistake.
Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers said, “The person
interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable
part of the process of getting to the top.”
4.
Don’t give up!
Author and speaker Og Mandino has some impactful words on
this topic.
He said, “Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your
capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach
your goals. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure?”
Shake
it off. Your turn will come. Believing that is essential for success.
If you are facing a bad experience because of a mistake
that you made, let the bad experience lead you to a good experience.
Remember,
good experiences are often a result of previous bad experiences. Bad
experiences are only bad if you fail to learn from them.
Ask
yourself this question: How can I take this bad experience and turn it into a
better one?
I’ll
always remember these strong words from Winston Churchill, “Success is not
final; failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.”
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