The FEAR of being nothing, achieving nothing and
becoming nothing should be way bigger than the fear of making mistakes.“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable,
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard
Shaw
Here are 7 reasons why not making mistakes is in fact the
biggest mistake you could ever make.
1. Mistakes help you discover who you truly are.
With every mistake that we make we discover more and more
about ourselves, about who we are, about our limits, about our capabilities,
about what we can and cannot do. They help us be more compassionate and more
tolerant with ourselves and others.
“There is a power inside every human against which no
earthly force is of the slightest consequence.” ~Neville Goddard
2. Mistakes teach you valuable life lessons.
By making mistakes you will in fact learn valuable life
lessons and you will become a happy learner. There is so much we can all learn
from our mistakes, and the moment we see them as lessons rather than mistakes,
we will no longer have this crazy fear of encountering them along the journey.
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your
mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the
hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn
from.” ~ Al Franken
One of the greatest lesson you will learn from making
mistakes is forgiveness. With every mistake that you’ll make, you will learn
how important it is to forgive yourself and many of the people around
you. You will understand that you are not perfect and that perfection
doesn’t really exist, only our intentions of doing our best. And who wants to
be perfect anyways? Perfection leaves no room for improvement.
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive
yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that
situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ~ Steve Maraboli
NOT MAKING MISTAKES - isn’t that actually the biggest
mistake you could ever make? Life isn’t about avoiding mistakes but rather
embracing the idea that mistakes will come your way and being willing to learn
from these mistakes. Let go of your fears and allow yourself to really
experience life.
“There are some people who live 70 years, and there some
people who live one year 70 times, repeating what they’re doing over and over
in the name of the gold watch or whatever.” ~ Wayne Dyer
Believe it or not, if you play it safe you will have more
and more regrets about the things you did not do rather than the things you did
do, you will regret not making more mistakes. Personally, whenever I hesitate
doing something because of the fear of making mistakes, I imagine myself on my
death bed ( I know, a bit too crazy but it works ) looking back at my life
on what I achieved. By doing so I realize that if i don’t take action NOW, I
will have regrets.
“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what
people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering
what life had been like if I’d just been myself.” ~ Brittany Renée
6. Mistakes help you growth and evolve.
If you don’t make mistakes how can you expect to GROW and to
EVOLVE as a human being? How many of us get stuck because they allow the
fear of making mistakes to paralyze them? How can we expect to learn anything
new if we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes?
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make
mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you
have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them
many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the
same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no
other way of learning how to live!” ~ Alfred Adler
You gain confidence, courage and experience every time you
make a new mistake in a very narrow field and in time you will get better and
better at the things you love to do. Remember Thomas Edison? He failed
more than 10,000 times while working on the light bulb and in the end he
succeeded.
When you know exactly what you want and when you are able to
see this something in your mind’s eye, nothing can stop you from moving
forward, nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams and allowing happiness
to enter into your life.
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and
that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan
Believe it or not, you will not make all the mistakes you
expect to make, and when you do make mistakes, the sky will not fall down and
the whole world will not stop from doing whatever it is doing just so it can
laugh at you.
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