Celebrating our mistakes
Wow. I feel like today is a day of true celebration. I want to celebrate my life, my wins, my efforts and even my mistakes! Why my mistakes? Because my mistakes as Karen so powerfully pointed out today in class is nothing more than a “mis- take” on a course of action. It is not my doom or demise like I erroneously perceived my mistakes in the past to be. I don’t need to punish myself therefore for my ignorance or unpredaredness that so often lends itself to mistakes. I just try again without self-prosecution. They are just one “take” out of many that I can redo, so just redo– and if I can’t redo the situation, I can still redo my perception to the situation. Just like an actor in a studio has to do many re-takes before he finally gets the scene just right, well that is how we have to do it in life. And we can celebrate these takes because they inevidably get us to where we want to go. Just like the old adage, practice makes perfect, if we fumble and fall in a situation, we just simply get up and try something new. We are not perfect and perfectly skilled before jumping into something but it is through the many takes on a course of action that we become better skilled, better prepared, better whatever.
So why not come to embace and celebrate the mistakes? You need them. They are your ally and furthermore they are inevidable. They are your learning tool and your compass. So use them as such, not as your branding or labling device for what you consider your idiocray (“oh I made a mistake, see what an idiot I am”). In other words– they are not your mistakes that make you or a situation bad or negative in some way, but rather it is you holding on to the negative judgements of yourself or the situation that makes the mistake a bad thing. So take the sting out of the dreaded “mistake” and honor yourself for the many “mis-takes” you have done and will continue to do in order to learn and grow and expand your life in ways that couldn’t have happened without the first, second, third or 10th mis-take. Eventualy, you will have your ah-ha breakthrough moment and it takes some people making many of the seemingly same mistakes to get that. But so what, who is in a race here. Loosen up on your self…
Anyway, what I am trying to say (and learn through writing this blog) is that life is a journey that no matter how skilled or prepared we think we are is going to offer up obstacles that may blindsight us. So to better prepare for this delicious exciting journey, let’s start really redifining our mistakes as they occur. Let’s turn them into the teaching tools that they are so perfectly designed for. If our mistakes are merely perceived as the horrid straight jacket that keep us stuck and imprisoned for fear of making more bad moves, than we will never advance in life– or at least not joyfully. So let’s appreciate and celebrate all that we have become through our many mis-takes in life. Let’s fully acknowledge the strength, the vulnerabiltity, humility and courage it took to suffer through our many mistakes and come out not just on top but soaring higher than we thought imaginable. Take the time to look at who you really are– who you really have become because you have been that actor in your own movie redoing and perfecting your takes until you nailed it and become the star. Who doesn’t want to celebrate there own process to stardom?!
Here is to your greatest mistakes that continue to make you a star!
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