None of us are perfect, yet we are perfectly us. Being perfectly us doesn’t make us immune to making mistakes, because we are meant to make mistakes. Without mistakes there is no growth, there is no lessons learned, there is no room to improve, life without mistakes is a life that is stagnant and let’s face it no one wants to be that stagnant pond covered in algae. We want to be that following clear sparkling water that is full of life and vitality. We want to be the flowing water from which we can freely drink, we want to dip our toes in, or jump in and and see clear to the bottom, we want to fill it with colourful fish and vibrant plants that grow breathtaking flowers. We can not be fresh, alive and happy without making mistakes.
We often put way too much pressure on ourselves to seek some unrealistic ideal of perfection. We think that we would be happier if we had never made a mistake, but we are wrong to think that. Mistakes are what drives us to work harder, to find a better answer, to seek new ways of doing things or a new path to follow. Past relationships that we now see as mistakes were the ones that made us grow stronger and seek a better partner, or helped us realise we are worth so much more than we first believed.
We are way too good at self sabotage, we make a mistake and we want to crawl into a hole and hide, we say things like “I’m no good at that, why did I bother? How did I ever think something good could happen to me?”
But what if something good did just happen and you are ignoring it? What if making that mistake was a “good thing”?
It is normal, and healthy to be disappointed when we don’t achieve something we thought we should have. But use this disappointment to empower you rather than defeat you. Turn that disappointment into your tool for growth and change! Let it fuel you to fight even harder for what you want. Use mistakes as fuel, see them as a victory because from them you have learnt so much! Take what you have learnt and refocus yourself.
Get up and try again!
The greatest people in their felids have failed, they just didn’t give up. The ones that gave up are the ones living with regret. Don’t ever give up. Your focus may need to change slightly, your dream may start as one idea, like starting with a tree trunk,
and yet as you make mistakes you grow branches
which lead to leaves
and even flowers,
and when you stand back and look at what you have created you realise you have a beautiful tree, and that is so much more than the trunk you thought you wanted in the first place.
Remember that mistakes are vital to our growth, mistakes are how we learn, so next time you make a mistake embrace it, and keep going.
Thanks for joining me, love Mac xx
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That’s a great quote Mac 🙂
when I saw it I really liked it.
Thank you for hostessing lovely ❤️
thank you for being part of it xx
I absolutely love that bottom picture and it makes me excited for spring to hurry up and get here. Personal growth and believing in yourself is so very important. I have tried to set small goals this year and reward myself. Now if I could just kick this crud out my house I’d be super happy. Thanks again for hostessing and the invite to #mg.
it is so important, not always easy, but we really do learn so much xx
Love the analogy and the pictures! I definitely need to start viewing my mistakes in a new light 🙂
I hope you do, as we really can live better when we accept it is normal and healthy to make mistakes.
I love this Mac, I really do beat myself up when I get anything wrong. I really need to let go and just roll with it sometimes. Thank you for the lovely reminder and for hosting xx
you are very welcome lovely, thank you for linking up xx
I love this, I am SO hard on myself all the time, this is a lovely post, thank you for hosting! xx
Thank you for stopping by lovely x
Oh wow! I love the analogy with the tree. Mistakes in life and inevitable. It’s how we deal with them that makes us who we are and affects our lives. Lovely post and message, Mac! Thank you for hosting #mg! xx
oh thank you for this lovely comment x
Thanks for hosting. I’ve added an old(!) but unloved one from the first batch of blogs I wrote back in October in my mad flurry of activity.
I liked you post.
With tedious inevitablility I will wave my Neil Gaiman flag and say, “Have you seen this?”.
It’s a speech he made on the importance and beauty of mistakes.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html
#mg
oh wow what a great speech! Thank you so much for sharing this with me, he is so right!
What a lovely post and a beautiful quote too! It’s so true when we make mistakes, we learn from it, thus we need to embrace it and keep going rather than regret and dwell with our mistakes. By the way, Thanks so much for linking up with #candidcuddles this week.
thanks, yes I really love that quote!
Always good to remember that all successful people have failed at some point. t’s easy to forget that, but it’s all about resilience. #mg
it’s true we all fail at times, but we always grow from it xx
I didn’t realise this was a linky at first! Let me just tackle some commenting and I’ll try and pop back and join in! I was going to say that I think that this is a lovely post, so true, I often find that the best journeys have been ones where the end destination is totally the result of some unexpected detours and unseen events and nowhere near where I thought we would end up! I really love that quote too. Thanks for linking up to the #bigpinklink
oh that would be great if you linked up. Thank you fro commenting, yes sometimes those unexpected journeys are the best!
Beautiful post as we all want to be perfect, my included. I try and do everything so I can be the perfect wife and mummy and then when it goes wrong I put myself down so much. #mg xx
Another stunning inspiring post! You give out so much positivity and energy – I always feel so inspired by what you write. Loved it! #mg “Get up and try again!” I always hear your voice (well what I imagine your voice to be) in my head.
Great quote as always 🙂 Coming here always cheers me up and there’s virtual tea
This is a beautiful post, Mackenzie! I love how you liken mistakes to a tree – it’s true how life takes on a direction of its own. Love the creativity quote too! Thanks for linking up with #candidcuddles & for hosting #MG xx
Well said! I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my youth – I’ve learnt a lot from them. Sarah #mg
Fabulous! I completely agree. Our flaws are the best part in my opinion and our mistakes shape us and can lead to better things #twinklytuesday
I love the tree analogy and it’s exactly what I’ve been trying to say on my blog but you said so much better! I didn’t use to think that. I use to think like you stated about think, “How could I think that something good could happen to me?” not realizing at the time that good things were happening to me all along, even in the midst of tragedy and despair. I was just so consumed with all of the negative that I couldn’t see the positive. I love this post! It’s exactly how I feel about my past mistakes and I know I’m not done making mistakes because I’m not done growing and learning! Popping over from #mg
Love so much about this post and reminds me of something my counsellor tried to get across to me in my twenties. So you brought back lovely memories too. I have a real issue with perfectionism and it has held me back a lot and yet as I grow older, I revel more in mistakes and learning
I am glad it brought back lovely memories and I hope it helps. I have always been a perfectionist too, and am learning to embrace growth and change. Thank you for your comment
Lovely post Mac, it’s a really great way of looking at it. We all beat ourselves up too much in life so this is one less way to do it if we look at the positives! Thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday
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