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How can I use my past mistakes for good?

How can I use my past mistakes for good?

Use your past mistakes as a guiding light to identify the silver-lining so that you can forgive yourself. How can you use the pain of past mistakes for good in the future?

When do we fail in life and make huge mistakes?

When we fail in life and make huge mistakes, it’s hard to forgive ourselves. It’s hard to move past the hurt and the pain. But, we can use those mistakes as leverage. We can use it as leverage to reshape our goals and where we’re heading in life. Any difficult situation is made to help us grow and become better people.

Why do we forgive ourselves for past mistakes?

Mistakes offer a fork in the road. They’re a chance to choose one path or another. Often, that’s done by design. If I hadn’t made some of the major mistakes that I made in my life, I wouldn’t have benefited in the enormous way that I did over time. And I wouldn’t be where I am today. I just hadn’t realized it back then.

Do you think life is a series of mistakes?

You see — life is a series of mistakes. We go from one to the next, learning, shaping, and molding us along the way. But, when we’re suffering through the pain of our mistakes, it’s hard to see the forest through the trees, so to speak.

When we fail in life and make huge mistakes, it’s hard to forgive ourselves. It’s hard to move past the hurt and the pain. But, we can use those mistakes as leverage. We can use it as leverage to reshape our goals and where we’re heading in life. Any difficult situation is made to help us grow and become better people.

Use your past mistakes as a guiding light to identify the silver-lining so that you can forgive yourself. How can you use the pain of past mistakes for good in the future?

What was the mistake I made at work?

I was designing the operations for a company that was integrating nine acquisitions. I planned out all of their future offices and staffing needs, down to the individual people who would be needed. My main contact at my client called me to say something seemed really off with my projections, and he asked if I was accounting for the “other data.”

Which is the best quote about making a mistake?

― Joe Abercrombie 19. “I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I’m confident to say – he who never made a mistake never made any discovery” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive 20. “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” ― Sophocles