09.01.09
Do we make misteaks?
I know – none of us make misteaks, right? Oops, was that a miscue? Mistakes are really ways for us to learn, if we look at it that way. Think of the Apollo mission to the moon – they where off course 98% of the trip and they made it to the moon and even more important – they made it back home.
So that is life – full of opportunities to learn and to get more refined and on target in what we do. How we respond to and the way we perceive these lessons are completely up to us – it is our choice (problem that stops us or lesson that moves us forward).
Thomas Edison tried 1000 times to make a light bulb and when asked how did it feel to fail 1000 times he said, “We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”. Carl Jung said, “Mistakes are, after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not”
How often do we as parents find ourselves trying to be perfect and attempting to never make a mistake? Some of us even carry that over to what we expect from our kids. What we tend to over look is that nothing in this entire world is perfect! Try finding two blades of grass that are exactly the same or two trees. Therefore, since we cannot be perfect and yet by trying to be results in our becoming frustrated and stressed.
This is one of the reasons it is so important to have goals so that you learn the lessons provided by each miscue and apply them to make the necessary changes to accommodate the correction in direction, process or action to keep moving forward toward your goal and not get frustrated. The world is designed in this way so that we may learn in order to help us to move in a more direct path of choice toward our goal. After all, how do you think the Scotch Post-It was invented – mistake!
Samuel Smiles said, “We often discover what will do, by discovering what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
Have a more directed and corrected week full of mistaks (I mean mistakes)!
With Love, Peace and Power,
Ron Dilbert
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Joyce Bone said,
November 5, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Love the title!
I tell my kids you never fail unless you blame someone else.
Life is about testing & tweaking. Mistakes are how we learn. Failure is just one more way NOT to do something not a reflection of character.
Thanks for the post! Good stuff.