We All Make Mistakes

“The FEAR of being nothing, achieving nothing and becoming nothing should be way bigger than the fear of making mistakes”. These are the first words I read on a certain piece. I was reading the article and thought to myself, “I have to share this”. It’s about 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.

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.

3. Mistakes teach you to forgive.

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.

4. Mistakes help you let go of fear.

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.

5. Mistakes teach you how to live a life without regrets.

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 and learning. 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.

6. Mistakes help you grow 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 we allow the fear of making mistakes to paralyze us? How can we expect to learn anything new if we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes?

7. Mistakes teach you how to be happy.

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.

So don’t beat yourself up when you do make a mistake and fail along the way. We all learn everyday.

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