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Learning from the Fruit of Our Mistakes

December 16, 2007 by Joi Leave a Comment

Quote About Learning from Mistakes
 

It’s not something I’m particularly fond of doing, but I do (every now and then) reflect on mistakes I’ve made – whether they were in the past year, the past day….or if I’m in really rare form, in the past hour.  No, I’m not a pessimist.  And I’m definitely not a sadist – I’m a realist.  A realist who has come to realize that our greatest lessons lie in the text books of our mistakes.

If you were to think back over some of your own beauts, you’d find lessons that were learned, whether you even realized it at the time or not.  Maybe you nearly made yourself sick-and-or-nuts by trying to do too much.  You realized what you were doing, scaled back and learned a very valuable lesson.

Maybe you misspelled a word in a blog post and were called out by a human spell checker. Perhaps the bite of their words caused you to double check your’s forevermore.

Maybe one of your biggest mistakes was a big fat jump into the wrong conclusion and the lesson, “Look before you leap” has stayed with you since. (Make no mistake about it….excuse the pun….this lesson is a great one!)

So, the next time you make a mistake, don’t kick yourself around 4 counties.  Don’t stew in your own juices, and most certainly don’t call yourself hateful names.

Rather, take yourself out for a Latte (or Frappuccino if the weather’s warm) and toast yourself for a brand new lesson.  You won’t be celebrating the mistake – you’ll be celebrating the lesson it taught and the wisdom you’ve gained.   Said another way, you’ll be toasting to self growth – so, go ahead and have a cookie, too.

Hold each mistake accountable for itself – demand your lesson!

~ Joi

*** By the by, a warm and wonderfully friendly woman recently e-mailed me asking if she could use one of my Quote graphics on the site (I believe it was on one of the Quotes pages). She said she had trouble finding images for her posts and would love to use one I’d made about Eagerness.  I told her exactly what I’m telling you now – I’d be honored for you to use any of the ones I’ve done, as long as you give an active link back to Self Help Daily on your blog or web site.  I’m making more that’ll be popping up all over the site – all I ask if for a link back.

Does that make me a link desperado?  I guess you could bet your sweet a href it does.

 

Filed Under: Daily Quote, Problem Solving, Self Help, Vintage Self Help Daily Tagged With: inspirational quote, motivational quote, quote, quote of the day

If I Could Live My Life Over Again…

January 13, 2006 by Joi 5 Comments

Picture of a Barn in Autumn

If I could live my life again.
Next time, I would try to make more mistakes.
I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more.
I would be sillier than I have been.
I would take fewer things seriously.
I would be less fastidious.
Accept more risks, I would take more trips,
Contemplate more evenings,
Climb more mountains, and swim more rivers…
I would go to more places where I have not been,
Eat more ice cream and fewer beans.
I would have more real problems and less imaginary ones.
I was one of those people who lived
sensibly and meticulously every minute of their life.
Of course I have had moments of happiness.
But if I could go back in time, I would try to
have good moments only,
and not waste precious time.
I was someone never went
anywhere without a thermometer, a
hot water bag, an umbrella
and a parachute. If I could live again,
I would travel more frivolously.
If I could live again, I would begin
to walk barefoot at the beginning of the spring
and I would continue to do so until the end of autumn.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds,
I would contemplate more evenings and I would play
with more children.
If I could have another life ahead.
But I am 85 years old you see, and I know that I am dying.

This poem is believed to have been written either by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine poet or American poet, Nadine Stair.  Everywhere I looked (desperately trying to give credit where credit was due), gave one or the other – and a few sources listed the author as “Unknown.”

Personally, I think Borges wrote it in Spanish and Stair translated it into English. However, Stair could just as easily have written it, so I’m crediting both. Who said the words isn’t nearly as important as the words, themselves.

It’s just a beautiful and elegant reminder that life isn’t just for living… it’s for living out LOUD.

Filed Under: Daily Quote, General, Must Reads, Self Help Tagged With: poem, quote

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