Your Mistakes are Precious Diamonds, Your Failures Gold, Don’t Waste a Single One of Them

Are you going to fail in life? You bet! Are you going to make some wrong choices? Without a doubt you are. Searching for success in life is like mining for treasure, you’re goin to scoop up a heck of a lot more sand and gravel in your pan than diamonds but keep on scooping anyway because one tiny diamond will make it all worth it.

Thomas Edison did not look at his hundreds of failed attempts to create the light bulb as defeats, he chose to see them as having “discovered” hundreds of ways that did NOT create electricity. Each time you make a mistake, fail to reach your goal, or generally fall off the wagon in any area of life, you have a choice to make right then. You can choose to accept defeat, walk away feeling discouraged and frustrated, or you can make a conscience decision to consider it, as Thomas Edison did, “One more way that will not work in getting me to my goal”.

There are lessons to take away from every mistake and failure. Valuable lessons that, if applied, will yield great returns when it comes to navigating us around the same pitfalls and detours the next time we set our to reach our goal. If you are willing to learn from your mistakes, then they are not failures, they then become valuable life-lessons which will help you reach your goals and dreams in the future.

So today, choose to turn each  mistake and failure into experiences and skills. Refuse to look at your life-glass half-empty, instead, see it as half-full your goals as half-reached already and with an attitude like this and some good ole perseverance and patience, you will soon be rejoicing at the finish-line of your dream.