“Your mistake does not define who you are. You are your possibilities.”
– Oprah Winfrey
OK, let me begin by saying that I actually threw up in my mouth a little bit quoting Oprah. Not. A. Fan. At. All.
But, she’s got this topic right.
Mistakes shape us, and we ought to get more comfortable making mistakes of aggression — mistakes of action, because they help us understand our possibilities. Mistakes shape us, but possibilities define us.
If we spent one-third of the time we spend avoiding mistakes actually making some of them, and if we devoted all the time we spend worrying about making mistakes to focusing on possibilities — well, we’d make a BIG difference EVERY day.
Barb Woods says
Soooo true!