“To Thine Own Self Be True”



Thursday, April 14, 2011

Do you make mistakes?

Of course you do! Everyone does, don't they?

Mistakes are not a problem unless you see them like that. A common problem I see a lot is that many people make a mistake and let it bring them down. They allow their self esteem to drop.

Let me ask you is your self esteem connected to how successful you think you are and do you demand high standards? What happens when you make a mistake? How do you react? How does it affect
you?

Having a healthy sense of self esteem means that you accept who you are with ALL your imperfections. Accepting does not mean saying to yourself "That's how I am" and then doing nothing to
change..

The difference that makes a person great is the ability to accept mistakes, admit them and determine to learn from them.

If how you feel about yourself depends on everything going well and not failing, and if you see mistakes as failures then you are trapped.

Understand the value of mistakes and the fact that there is something positive to betaken from almost every mistake. Very few mistakes are fatal and there is always hope that next time if you
keep trying you'll succeed.

So don't think about your mistakes and never regret them. Think about what you learned. Mistakes are just steps along the path of life. It is important only how you recover from them and move on.