Make mistakes.

As the person who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything!

My dearest gang,

Many successful people from around the world understand that failures and false starts are a precondition of success.

How about that? Quite encouraging to hear? That's the whole idea. Life is all about encouragement and being positive. With such an attitude we will go far.

For example, Benjamin Franklin said, 'I haven't failed, I've had 10,000 ideas that didn't work.'

Thomas Edison said, 'Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.'

Theatre director Joan Littlewood said, 'If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.'

Really many a times failures were the major contributor to successes.

This, to me applies even to our daily relationships with our friends, our co-workers and most of all with people whom we love very much. I find it is during adversities we learn of people's true character. If the mistakes were made without any intentions of malice, if the mistakes were genuine, most times it can draw people closer as this presents an opportunity to begin to understand each other. It presents an opening to reach each other's inner feelings and thoughts. We begin to know each other better through mistakes. How we learn from our mistakes and how we make amends and how the recipient finds in his/her heart to forgive and forget, all adds to the relationship... all adds in going the distance.

This is always the time we learn what the other person is made of. Whether he/she is kind, accommodating, forgiving, generous or otherwise. If we were too guarded, then we will lose opportunities to learn more about each other and so lose opportunities to get even closer. This is the time we will know our value, our worth with the other party, as to how they swallow their pride, their ego in the desire to make things better.

To be able to swallow our pride, our ego and admit to our mistakes is not the easiest thing to do. We can only learn in humility. People who can, are true winners. These are the people who get the best things in life, especially in relationships..

Don't be afraid to make mistakes and don't be afraid of failures, for as long as we keep our humility. The more interesting the mistakes, the more interesting the life. The more mistakes we make is also a reflection of the more things we dare to do in life, and the more things we learn. It is better to make mistakes than not having initiative. Learning from mistakes adds to our wisdom and prepares us for the next big conquest in life, only if we are not afraid to make mistakes. As they say, 'The person who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.'

I leave you with this quote:


'FAIL, FAIL AGAIN, FAIL BETTER.' Samuel Beckett.


Cheers,

Ruby.


All quotes above have been extracted from 'It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be' by Paul Arden
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