What do you do when you make a mistake?
I’ve not met anyone in my long life so far that has been mistake free!
Mistakes make us better at whatever we do because they:
Wake us up – increase awareness
Provide learning and information
Clarifies what we want or how we want to be
and
Are often the source of great innovations!
Spend as much time buried in your hands as you need, but the more time you are down about it the more you
delay benefit from the learnings!
A lot of mistakes are not noticed, so unless life or limbs are involved avoid spotlighting it.
And, sometimes a mistake makes something be noticed more!
The detail people reading this know what I am referring to!
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Monitor my self-talk and say, “That’s not like me, the next time I will…”
I like that and do it myself. I find after many mistakes over a number of years, I am my worst critic!