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"Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound
difference in your life are pretty low." ~ Tom Peters

Using Your Mistakes To Springboard To Success
- By Zig Ziglar

Each of us at one time or another has thought about how wonderful it would
be to have as much foresight as hindsight. Then we could avoid making
mistakes! Not only is that hope unrealistic, it's also unwise. Mistakes are
often the springboard for major accomplishments. Here's a good example:

Thomas Edison was working with a lab assistant who was coming up dry after
over 700 experiments. In discouragement, the assistant told Edison that
after all these mistakes, errors, and false starts, he simply didn't believe
that the project was valid. Edison quickly told him that he wasn't wasting
his time and that the assistant now knew more about the project than anybody
alive. Edison wisely observed that the assistant hadn't made mistakes but
instead had acquired an education as to what didn't work. Needless to say,
the assistant went back to his project with renewed vigor.

If you take Edison's approach to life, you end up accomplishing much, much
more. You need to understand that after every mistake you can look back and
grow from the experience so that you can move forward with confidence and
avoid making the same mistake again.

Here are three tips for handling a mistake, either at home or work:

1. Don't let a mistake depress or discourage you. See a mistake
as a step on the road to a solution. Realize that depression and
discouragement are negatives that limit the future.

2. Admit the mistake. Yes, admitting your mistakes takes
courage, but recognition of errors is a sign of maturity. Not to recognize
them is to deny them, and denial limits your future.

3. Understand that when you confront your mistakes, you can
take full advantage of them as the positive experiences they can be. When
you ignore mistakes or try to conceal them, they almost always have a
negative impact.

. . . Adapted from Success For Dummies by Zig Ziglar. Look for this book at
your favorite online or offline bookstore! Success For Dummies is one of the
Fastest selling books in the DUMMIES series.
--
Larry Bergstrom
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| "Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound
| difference in your life are pretty low." ~ Tom Peters
|
| Using Your Mistakes To Springboard To Success
| - By Zig Ziglar
|
| Each of us at one time or another has thought about how wonderful it would
| be to have as much foresight as hindsight. Then we could avoid making
| mistakes! Not only is that hope unrealistic, it's also unwise. Mistakes
are
| often the springboard for major accomplishments. Here's a good example:
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