"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw

This advice from George Bernard Shaw is well intentioned, but like so much advice glorifying mistakes and failure it is incomplete. A life spent making the same mistakes repeatedly or making mistakes and never learning from them is not honorable, it is foolish. 

Mistakes and failure can be tremendous opportunities to learn and grow, if you reflect on the mistakes and determine what changes need to be made to the effort or the process to ensure you learn, grow, improve and move forward. 

As I have written about before, mistakes and failure are not the keys to growth. Effort and Process committed to striving to learn, grow, improve and advance a cause or mission, is key. In the striving you will sometimes make mistakes or fail. When that happens you need to step back, examine the mistake or failure and ask, “What did I learn? What am I going to do differently moving forward to ensure growth and progress?” This will help ensure you do not simply repeat the mistakes of the past. 

“Experience is not the best teacher; Evaluated Experience is the best teacher.”

John Maxwell

What’s Important Now? Strive. Evaluate. Learn. Move forward. Repeat. 

Take care.

Brian Willis

www.lifesmostpowerfulquestion.com

www.winningmindtraining.com

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