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How To Accept And Correct Your Mistakes
Mistakes are valuable lessons if you approach them right.
When you make a mistake, you begin to envision the wrath of judgment.
You picture how people will look down on you. You feel today is the day your manager FIRES you.
Maybe it’s all true. Maybe not.
Some will call you a fool, gossiping behind your back.
You fear judgment. You fear losing credibility. You fear not what the lesson the mistake will bestow on you, but rather, how others will perceive you.
Mistakes happen for many reasons.
You rush. You’re stressed. You didn’t sleep well.
Emotions and wasteful processes are often the biggest culprits.
When you panic, you make more mistakes. You ignore procedures. Rules are forgotten. You shift away from the plan. You become unresponsive and stop thinking clearly. Your emotions build, stacking on top of each other.
You react — not to what you need to respond to but to the insidious hormones raging through your veins.
Uncontrolled emotions make you do dumb things.
