Friday, August 21, 2009

The mislabeling of a mistake...

Life is unpredictable and outcomes don't always go as predicted. Even with all the stars aligned and all the preparation finished, things might not go as you had hoped. Most people instantly label it a failure or the action a mistake... but that's not really a correct label. Just because something didn't go the way that you wanted doesn't make it a mistake, simply a different outcome than you wanted.

Something is never a failure or a mistake if you learn from it. Even when things don't go your way, if you choose to look and learn from it, you don't have to label it a mistake at all. Life is about learning and improvement. You can take as much back from a "mistake" as you can from a "success". Something is only a mistake when you fail to learn from it. Not learning from a mistake tends to lead to making the same mistake again. Life is about improvement not making the same mistakes over and over.

If you don't like the result, don't make the same action. If you do what you've always done, you are going to get what you have always gotten. If you don't like the way things always go, you need to make a change in how you do things.

Growing, changing, and improving is what life is about. Trying new things and different approaches until you are happy with the results is important.

Keep smiling everyone, today is going to be an amazing day...

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