“You screwed up! Big or small? It doesn’t matter. We all make mistakes. The big question is what to do when you make a mistake? How do you keep going? Okay, this won’t be the first time you heard this. You are human. Humans make mistakes. That’s what we do. That’s how we learn. From our earliest moment we are screwing up and it’s informing us and teaching us. Accept it. To err is human. You learn from mistakes!

Since we went to school, we hate messing up. We hated those red marks on our tests. We were told everything we did wrong. SO, we developed an aversion to it. We developed a fear of making mistakes. We don’t like it. We are afraid of making mistakes. We don’t want to make them. We feel bad when we screw up. BUT know this! It’s an opportunity to learn. It’s an opportunity to adjust and continue. This is opportunity!

Stop focusing on mistakes! If you focus on what you don’t want, you’ll get more of what you don’t want. That’s the law. If you spend time worrying about making mistakes, it’s far more likely you will make them. Why? Because Garbage In Garbage Out. What goes around comes around. What you focus on expands. Energy flows where attention goes. Stop worrying about dreading and repeating mistakes. Instead, learn!

LEARN TO LIVE  LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT

If you think ‘don’t screw up’ it’s not any different than telling a child ‘Don’t spill your milk’. You know what happens when you do that. Milk gets spilled. Then, most people yell, ‘I told you not to spill your milk.’ Further adding insult to injury. Instead, focus on what you do well. Live fearlessly and expect the best. Live optimistically. Live positively. Live happily. Expect the best! Plan for success. You’ll learn new things.

Understand that a mistake can help you change direction when needed. You might not even notice how necessary this is at first. By making a mistake you must slow down and reevaluate. It provides you an opportunity to increase your awareness, learn something new, remember something of value and set a new direction or refocus and remain on course. A mistake is a blessing and a gift when you realize this! Do you?

Stop letting mistakes bother you so much. You are so much more than your occasional screw up. You do more things right than you could ever do wrong. Accept yourself. Accept others too. Allow them some room to grow and improve. Get easy on yourself and others. Love yourself and all others more. Stop criticizing. Stop worrying. Stop fearing. Stop doubting. Start loving. Start laughing. Start celebrating more. Count your blessings! Embrace this. Accept it. You do plenty of things well and some quite well. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes