Holistic – There is no failure, only lessons

Mistakes, failures, are feedback mechanisms for learning, they are simply lessons, not defining events or moments.

When was the last time you made a mistake?

See, we all make plenty of mistakes in life — in business, in relationships, in careers, and in our life choices. But a mistake is really just a mental construct. 

Instead, I like to think of these experiences as learning moments, lessons to reflect on and evaluate. Preserve the learnings and disregard the attached negative emotion.

Being emotionally rattled by a mistake is giving power to just one side of the mistake. If there is a negative emotion attached, there has to also be a positive - we are often just unconscious to what that is, therefore we have to hold ourselves accountable to find it. 

This is how we preserve the learnings, and let go of the negative emotion so we are not ruled by our emotion.

Reflect, self-evaluate, each day, and ask yourself, what went well, what didn’t go well, what is working, what isn’t working, and what can be implemented next week to do the ‘working well’ better, and what did we learn from what didn’t work? 

When you try a new recipe, it often takes multiple times to get it just right. You may be off with a few ingredients or not bake it at the right temperature. But every time the recipe doesn’t work out, you taste it and know how to adjust until you get the dish to turn out just right.

It’s the same in business. After you make a mistake, you don’t stop and give up. You ask what you can learn from it and apply it to the next iteration.

There’s no such thing as mistakes — just learning moments.