Mistakes Are Blessings in Disguise

Humans do mistakes every day.

As a child, we learned how to walk after a series of painful falls. We learned how to ride a bike after getting some bruises from falling off the bike. We learned how to swim after choking ourselves with water from the pool.

This is how we learn to become better than we were before. We all learn from mistakes. Mistakes make us smarter and wiser.

But as we grew older, with the bout of negativity surrounding us, we started to disown the mistakes that we do, as well as forgetting about the learning that we should do behind every mistake. We often blame external factors for our mistakes rather than seeing in us a need to improve and avoid the same mistakes next time.

For a change, lets start to see every mistake as a blessing in disguise. There are lessons in every mistake that we make, and we can only graps the lessons completely by having a deep gratitude for the mistake that we make.

Here are some simple steps taken from this chapter "Magically Transform Mistakes into Blessings":

1. Choose one significant mistake you make in your life.
2. To help you find blessings, ask yourself these two questions:
• What did I learn from the mistake?
• What are the good things that came out of the mistake?
3. Find a total of ten blessings you're grateful for as a result of making that mistake, and write them down.

Example:

I'm grateful to my engineering career for the wake up call. It makes me realise what I'm really passionate about in life and gives me a clear indication of what I really want to do in future.
 

Stop feeling sorry for your mistakes and indulge in self-pity, and start learning how to capitalise on your mistakes and make them serve you instead.  :)

"Turn you wounds into wisdom." ~ Oprah Winfrey