Made mistakes? Move on

British author, Phyllis Bottome gave this advice when talking about mistakes: "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past CANNOT be changed. The future is yet in your power."

We make mistakes every day, large and small, failures and faux pas. But failure and mistakes still don’t feel like an awesome learning opportunity. I know it is my shortcomings that make me unique and that I should embrace the stumbles and screw ups. But it is a challenge for me and a challenge for many of us. We live and act in ways to prevent mistakes — not taking risks, expanding our comfort zones or jumping outside the boxes we hide in. But our mistakes and failures are gifts, gem.

The word mistake derives meaning only by comparison to what we desire, what we see as success.  I have wasted time regretting my mistakes. But no more! Starting today let you and I see our errors as 'lessons of wisdom' that we can apply to our present choices and actions.

Embrace failures, mistakes, screw ups and shortcomings because they not only make us uniquely who we are, but also teach us powerful lessons. You must realize that making mistake once is also called learning.