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Mistakes can be very helpful…

I have made my fair share of dumb mistakes. Mistakes are embarrassing, cringe, potentially foolish, but also helpful. Mistakes show real life. They humbly teach.

Every time I did something dumb or messed up, I used to get down on myself about it. But i’m learning that mistakes can actually be used well, and converted.

Every L can turn into a lesson. A lesson can be a blessing in disguise. We learn more from what we do wrong than what we do right. It reveals our skill level.

These areas where we try and fail show us what we need. It’s illuminating, we see how far we must go to improve. We see where we fell short of the goal and how.

When we understand why we made a mistake we receive insight into what went wrong. This allows us to not repeat that mistake moving forward. We have learned.

Of course we still do our best to avoid pitfalls in life. We learn from the mistakes of others throughout our lifetime, as well as history and study so we don’t follow.

When it comes to the inevitable blunders, no need to be distraught. Even if you did know better. We all have those days. But what can we learn from the situation?

What’s the mistake is pointing out? It’s a red flag showing something was off. Where did it go wrong? Let’s get to the root of it. Let’s see the stumbling block.

Instead of dwelling on mistakes that already happened, we can study them. Once and briefly. Not as a pity party but as a way to make sense of the past journey.

Because the more we observe and understand ourselves, the way we tick, the way we operate, our own programming. The more we will be able to optimize our path.

When we understand our weaknesses instead of hiding them from ourselves, we begin to see how to nurture our own growth and strengthen areas that need help.

So what if your mistakes are trying to teach you something about your own nature? What if they represent unconscious patterns that play out in your life?

Can you look back on some of your mistakes and discover and undercurrent or a theme that they seem to be pointing towards? Is there a message hidden within?

At the very least we can stop beating ourselves up for slip ups and decide to put them to good use, we study when we make a mistake, what went wrong and why.

But without casting harsh judgement, simply objectively. Oh that didn’t work, ok what went wrong? Can you understand that last mistake you made recently?

We can ask ourselves, what did I learn from that? what’s the point it was teaching me? and what could I have done differently? This will point us towards growth.

So mistakes may be more valuable than we initially thought. They’re like little signs pointing us in the direction of success. We just need to learn from them…