Goal Setting: How to Deal With Your Mistakes and Reach Your Goals
Ξ April 21st, 2008 | → | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |
Granted. Mistakes are ugly. We don’t want to have a lot of them around.
But are they really that detrimental to our lives?
Human beings are not perfect, therefore they are prone to commit mistakes continually.
Then why do some people seem to be so successful, and others don’t? Do they make less mistakes?
No, they don’t. Successful people make a lot of mistakes.
The difference is that they know how to handle them.
You see, society has dictated that mistakes are bad. When you stumble, you have failed miserably. After a sequence of errors you get labeled: failure!
It’s your accepting this label that will bring you down.
Successful people refuse to believe that lie. They learn how to cope with their errors.
Here are 7 ways to deal with mistakes in life:
1.- Say no to perfectionism. Some people are so afraid of making mistakes that they never do anything.
2.- Try humor. Laugh over your mistake. It will help you focus on your goal, and not on your mistake.
3.- If an error consistently reappears, then you might be trying to do something you are not talented for. That’s okay. None of us is superman. What about outsourcing in that area and sticking to what you are good at?
4.- Instead of bawling and squawling over the mistake, learn from it. That is what mistakes are for. They are the most powerful learning tool there is.
5.- In those difficult moments you will need faith to overcome. God is bigger than your mistakes. He is a Restorer of hopelessness. Stick close to Him always. That way you will never lose hope of reaching your goals.
6.- God will also heal you from past mistakes and restore your self-image. This will lead you to view your life with a victim mentality. If you are constantly saying, “These things always happen to me,” then it is high time you read what the Bible says about you!
You see, God does not create failures. If you have given your life to Jesus, you are redeemed from a cursed life, and you are automatically marked for success. In God’s eyes, you are more than a conqueror (Romans
7.- Allow yourself to dream. Dreams are powerful. Every great achievement of humanity started with a dream. Great things come to pass because somebody dared to step out and pursue that dream without ever letting anything stop him or her.
Even if your mistakes are tempting you to deny it, God has created you with a unique combination of talents and gifts to accomplish a special assignment here on earth. He wants to bless you with a life of abundance and fulfillment, and He expects you to develop those talents and to reach those goals to be a blessing to others!