Mistakes are part of our everyday life, we are bound to make mistakes especially when we're on a strange or new venture in life.
Sometimes we even make mistakes when we do things we're very familiar with. That goes to show that mistakes are inevitable in our daily activities
Mistakes give us awkward feelings, sometimes we feel disappointed and downcast when we make mistakes, that is normal and expected as human beings.
It's normal to make mistakes, it's also normal and expected to feel bad when mistakes occur. But what we make out of the mistakes we encounter each time goes a long way to determine our fate, positive or negative. It all depends on our reaction to the mistakes
Mistake can be a great tool to success if we pay attention. Some people get so upset when they make mistakes that they miss the tool and instrumental part of mistakes
Great men and women of the world are men and women who turned their mistakes into something else. Sometimes when we hear or make quotes like:
When life offers you lemon, make lemonade out of it
we don't always get the meaning of some of these sayings
What the above quote simply means is that you should turn your mistakes into something favourable. Lemon is not sweet and you didn't ask for it, but if you're offered lemon you don't have to throw it away because its bitter, just add sugar to it and turn it to a sweet juice and drink away your sorrow
I remember one of my teachers back in the days when i was in nursery school. She was sleeping in class one day when the education minister paid an uninformed visit to the school for inspection, I guess her instinct woke her up and she sighted the inspection team, then she immediately shouted "children what am I doing?^
We the innocent children responded "You are sleeping"
Again, she jumped up and asked again "what am i doing?"
We echoed again
"You are jumping"
She continued doing different things and asked us the same questions.
The inspection team were so impressed, they said our teacher was extremely good at what she does that she even teaches the children with practical demonstrations and that earned her a promotion
If she had panicked on sighting the team, she would jave been issued a query or even sacked for sleeping on duty, but she turned her mistake into strength and still got rewarded for it
We lose so many opportunities everyday because of the way we react to mistakes and our shortcomings. Every mistake that occurs has a lesson or new invention to be derived
We have to always be focused and pay attention to details so we can easily convert oir mistakes, because mistakes can also become new way or style of doing things