Why you should start embracing mistakes
Are you trying to grow as a person — and also trying to ensure you never make a single mistake?
Maybe that’s why you’re feeling stuck. You have set yourself an impossible task, with two goals that contradict one another. So you can’t move forward. And then you procrastinate, and then you beat yourself up for procrastinating, and then that makes it even harder to do what is necessary, which is taking one imperfect action towards what matters to you.
Instead of trying to always get it right… embrace your humanity and try your best.
Instead of focusing on never making mistakes… focus on learning how to bounce back from them.
Instead of searching for perfection… search for progress.
Instead of feeling ‘less-than’ for making a mistake… recognize that every person you’ve ever admired has made many mistakes, too.
Instead of celebrating the times when it goes right… celebrate the times where it goes wrong and you learn from it.
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