Making Mistakes – Getting Older AND Wiser

So many make the assumption that as you get older you automatically get wiser, sadly I have come to learn that this is not always the case.  I have watched many a friend, client or colleague make the same mistake over and over again – pushing me to the realization that not everyone pauses to learn from their mistakes.  This inability to learn from their mistakes and travel down a more productive path of self-improvement,  not only traps them in their own “groundhog’s day” (where Bill Murray keeps reliving the same day over and over again) but this reliving of mistakes will open up a whole new jar of mistakes for them to NOT learn from.

Let me let you in on a little tip about mistakes and learning from your mistakes.  Your Success At Last tip about making mistakes is; first let’s be honest with ourselves, you are going to make mistakes so do not beat  yourself up over them.  Forgive yourself for your mistakes!  Then second, learn from your mistakes and you can and will grow older AND wiser.

You see hind sight is 20/20.  You can always see the mistakes you made, however wisdom is the ability to see the mistakes looming on the horizon.  The only way to gain this coveted wisdom is not by avoiding the mistakes in your life or even in denying the mistakes you have made.  Rather getting wiser comes from learning from the mistake you made and of course escaping with some, and hopefully, all of your dignity in intact.

While getting older is something we all are going to do; only the smartest among us will get wiser.  The older you get the more opportunities you will have to make mistakes.  Thus the more opportunities you will have to grow wiser from those same errors in judgment, stumbling of footing and failing of your ways.

As long as you are able to look back at the mistakes you have made, see where you went wrong and resolve to yourself that you will not make those same mistakes again – then you are all the wiser for taking that time in self-reflection.    Also this self-reflection will impact how you treat others, because you will realize that others are getting older right along with you and that some of them may not be getting as wise as quickly as you are.   You will find yourself a little more patient, kind and forgiving of their mistakes once you truly take this Success Atlas tip of learning for your mistakes to heart.

So go out there and do, fear not your mistakes only fear an inability to grow wiser from them, for you see wisdom is not about avoiding mistakes nor just about making mistakes – wisdom is about learning from your mistakes and growing within from them.

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Tracy Brinkmann

One of Today’s Top Motivated Coaches

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