When making mistakes helps you grow and succeed big-time
In this article you will learn — 47 ways How to correct and learn from your mistakes in life
Making mistakes is a normal part of life — nobody can even question this because if you didn’t make any mistakes you can never learn anything worthwhile nor you would be able to grow in life bigtime.
What if your mistake is huge and takes you longer to bounce back from and also to change your habits-behavior-mindsets — this is perfectly alright.
All our biggest blunders also triggers massive changes in many aspects of our lives.
Most ideal and most preached approach is to learn from your mistakes and try your best to do better next time around — this is certainly not easy — but if you are able to do it you would acquire very powerful wisdom as well as success-formula.
Have you ever found that you made a big mistake and then vowed that you will never do that again — only to do the exact same thing just a short time later — I have done this many-many times.
Most of the time I can never remember lessons from my mistakes in time [of-course- unless the lessons were too painful and which created permanent mind-map].
And I know that I am not alone in this — as in all likelihood — all of us have repeated some of our mistakes at one time or another.
But making the same mistakes over and over can also be very expensive and have very serious and negative impacts — especially — if it is due to your being careless and being passively-ignorant [that is not trying to learn] and for want of planning, practice and preparations.
Making mistakes is good when you are stretching yourself by taking actions beyond your current capabilities and in the realm of uncertain, unknown and VUCA-BANI environment.
Accepting your mistakes need courage — as you need to deal with your EGO and the more insecure you are — the stronger and more uncontrollable your EGO will be.
47 ways How to correct and learn from your mistakes in life
[for most of the one sentence tip — there are detailed do-it-yourself blog in this as well as in my 2nd website]
1. Never try to go for quick-fixes and short-cuts while correcting your mistakes — as this could be one reason you made those mistakes.
2. Understand that — although you made this mistake — you have the capability to bounce back and recreate your life — irrespective of type of your mistake.
3. Do not start assuming that you can never get it right and stop connecting your self-worth with mistakes.
4. Instead take complete ownership and accountability for your actions, decisions mistakes and their consequences.
5. If you use excuses or blames to lessen the pain of failing or making mistake — understand that — not only you will prolong the process of getting yourself back on track but also that you will end up making even bigger mistake.
6. Understand that it is your life and only your responsibility to find solutions and take actions whenever you are stuck
7. It is always possible — that although you realize that you made a mistake — but are not exactly clear as to what wrongs you committed — seek guidance from people you trust and who have better wisdom.
8. Understand the mistake and treat it like a problem to be solved — identify all the things that you could have done it better plus if given chance what you would do differently
9. Find solutions and start applying these in your everyday life situations
10. If you are overwhelmed and are not able to cope on your own — seek guidance and counseling from experts — for finding a way forward and action steps
11. If you are unable to stop reflecting and overanalyzing and overthinking about your mistake — then take a break to look at this from different angle as — as this mistake might not be the real issue — but another deeper underlying one for which you need to explore the root cause
12. Identify your big-dream and then identify immediate action steps — and then go ahead and take your fist steps with your commitment and agreement that should you make mistake — you will immediately focus on correcting and improvising — start looking at mistakes as opportunities to improve and grow
13. Acknowledge your errors, your fears, your anxieties, your carelessness and casual approach — if there was any — which caused the mistake to be made
14. Ask yourself tough questions — to identify — what went wrong- what you can do better next time — what you could have done but did not do — how can you avoid making similar or same mistake again
15. Create a plan using the MECE principal — divide the plan into yearly, monthly and daily goals — create a robust tracking and monitoring plan
16. Good leaders know that the bigger mistake is trying to cover-up or ignore their mistakes — understand that problems have a way of becoming transparent and visible — that is they can very rarely be hidden
17. Be transparent about problems and mistakes- be the first to acknowledge your mistake- don’t minimize the damage or seriousness — own the problem — even if you didn’t cause it- offer ways to fix the problem-ask for feedback- learn from your mistakes- put safeguards in place-move beyond your mistakes
18. Create a list of reasons — why you cannot afford to repeat this mistake again
19. Write down all the ways you can maintain your self-disciplined to stay on track especially when passing through toughest phases
20. Develop assertiveness and confidence to ask for clarifications and help — in case you are confused as to what tactic or tool will be the most effective in preventing further mistakes
21. Find a practical way to make up for the mistake — when this can be done — as there are rare cases — when nothing you can do to make up for what has already been done
22. Life mistakes you need to correct before it is too late
23. Avoid career regrets by exploring and identifying what you really want to do with your work life and find a way to get it done
24. Creating a plan to become financially independent — by investing, saving and stopping wasting money on show-off or for ego-satisfaction
25. Limit your time wastage by avoiding watching news-channels and soap-operas and on and on social media
26. Nurture and make up all the most important relationships
27. Start a learning plan — by identifying and joining courses which can make you job-proof and recession-proof
28. Spend quality time with your loved ones and adding positive value which they will cherish
29. Get into healthy eating, sleeping and exercise habits
30. Volunteer opportunities to benefit others around you and also to bring so much to your life
31. Learn how to calm yourself down and practice relaxation techniques every day
32. Focus on self-care — learn to relax and have fun
33. Travel — when you are financially and physically able
34. Stop trying to please others at the cost of yourself and your loved ones [irrespective of your reasons like out of obligation to feel better about yourself or to avoid abandonment] — instead find ways to love and please yourself then you will be able to give genuine care to others
35. Simplify your life — get rid of physical, mental and emotional clutters
36. Start facing the realities in your life — accept what is broken and dysfunctional candidly
37. Begin to take responsibility for all of your actions, decisions and choices as well as their consequences
38. Prioritize you’re the role of relationships in your life — then nurture, cultivate and care for all the relationships you value
39. Learn to let go of regrets, shames and feeling guilty
40. Stop overthinking over-analyzing
41. Learn to manage your anger and stress
42. Give yourself time to grow and to know yourself
43. Learn the art of making mistakes by growing through learning
44. Maintain a learning and growth mindset — treat mistakes as learning opportunities — create better choices by experimenting
45. Get over your fear of making errors and failing — acknowledge that the fear is real
46. Make-up and applying the learning from your mistake in your everyday life
47. Make a plan- think of past mistakes and solutions — identify how you dealt with each mistake — think of as many possible ways to fix the mistake -create a pros and cons list for each possible solution — decide on a course of action and do it — formulate a back-up plan
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