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Breaking Free From Negative Thoughts And Embracing Mistakes

By Leigh Hunt on November 16th, 2007

Have you ever had a negative thought? Have you ever uttered it out loud, even in jest?  Most of us have.  More importantly, more often than we’d like to admit.  Negative thinking can be damaging not only to our self-esteem, but can begin a cycle of thought and behaviour that negatively impacts our own perception of events in our lives. 

For example: Perhaps you’ve been assigned a special project at work, or in your business. You’re confident in taking it on, but upon completion you notice one tiny error. You begin to berate the way in which you handled the project, even though the error was not significant. While your boss or client is telling you what a great job you’ve done, you begin to make excuses for it. Your negativity has minimised the entire project, and magnified one area of it.

What steps can you take to avoid this pattern?  Take a step back and look at the project objectively.  Not only did you complete it in an efficient manner, but it will become the template for future projects. Forget about the mistake; think about what you’ve achieved.

This is especially important when you run your own business.  Making errors is a part of learning.

In actual fact, if you’re not making mistakes then you’re probably not challenging yourself enough. 

Remember this and hold it with you in everything you do: Mistakes are the building blocks to growth.  Whenever you make a mistake, welcome it as a learning opportunity.

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