At times, it may feel like all you can succeed at is making mistakes. You can find yourself in scenarios where even if presented with two choices you have a 99% chance of picking the wrong one. Many beat themselves up about this but at times in life you are in a funk and the momentum of your life is against what you want to occur. It takes a lot of strength and perseverance to get through times like this.
Some adopt a feast or famine attitude to combat this, likening life to a game where they’ll accept having nothing for the chance of having everything. Others may become numb, losing sight of just what mistakes are being made or the fact they are worsening the situation by making the same one. The rest sit and wonder why “them” as if the misfortune occurring to someone else would be any better. All are missing the opportunity to see just what the mistakes are giving. Have you ever thought about what your mistakes have allowed you to do, learn, discover, or create?
Before getting into the gifts the majority of us are missing, let’s get into our defense mechanisms. The only thing that is being stopped is our success. We are protecting our current selves while killing the future selves we desire. Of course, we don’t do this intentionally but unfortunately, this is another mistake we are making in our flurry of mistakes. Our present selves get the most attention and protection. With a quick thought, the present should be prioritized but this is wrong. Your past is done and written in stone so the only protection that it may need is secrecy from a couple of embarrassing moments but no choice you make in the present will alter it. Your present is only an instant. It seems as if you are constantly in it but the current “you” was yesterday’s future you and you are where you are because of the choice you made in the multiple instances of yesterday.
Understanding this will reveal to you that the future you is what should be protected and prioritized. Again, the past can not be altered by the present you. The present “you” has the choice of salvaging what will almost immediately become the past while sacrificing the future you or embracing the importance of the future you realizing you have the best opportunity/most control over what can be than what is. The future “you” is ever-changing and the changes are drastic. The butterfly effect gives great insight into just how much. The butterfly effect is small change having a large effect elsewhere. A good example would be one of your great grandparents never meeting thier partner. How many of the people in your life wouldn’t exist including yourself? This the effect your decisions have on your life.
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Okay great, now you are looking at life a little differently. So…what are those benefits I kind of promised I’d discuss. The benefits are the opportunity to get better. The opportunity to try a different route to your goal. The opportunity to use your failure or mistake to discover or create something immediate success wouldn’t have given. When you get the chance, research the number of things that were created/discovered via mistake/failure. The list is amazing. X-rays, artificial sweeteners, the microwave oven, penicillin. The list is all over the place. These people had a goal that was one thing and they failed their way into something great. You may not be creating anything other than a great life for yourself and your family but your mistakes have loads of opportunities and lessons within them.
You may see yourself doing everything you feel you can to succeed and only see yourself not accomplishing what you set out to do but look around. Compare yourself and what you know, to who you were and what you knew when you first chose to pursue it. This look back will deliver a nice level of satisfaction and allow you to see progress even if you feel you haven’t taken a step. The lessons learned can be shared with your circle preventing them from making the same mistakes, getting them where they desire to go faster or to a new mistake that will take them to an even better place.
Making mistakes is a part of life. The feast or famine outlook on life can work but if you choose this route include the ability to analyze mistakes and get every drop of knowledge you can get from it. Put the odds in your favor as much as you can. Going numb to failure or mistakes can lead to shunning the lessons that come along with them. If you are going to be numb to the hurt of failure don’t ignore the ice pack in the form of wisdom it comes with it. Feeling sorry for yourself will create a habit that will be passed along to the future you. You know how important the future “you” is. They don’t need any bad habits. Remember the butterfly effect. Delayed gratification can be a tool that helps you get out of salvaging the feelings of the current you at the expense of the ascension of the future you.
Food for thought…You do the dishes.
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