When Wrong Is Right: Mistakes In All Their Glory

Introduction

Being wrong is a commonality that sits in the mind so deeply we begin to believe we can never be right. The fear of making a mistake isn’t something we take lightly and can affect how well we can move forward in life. 

The positives of making mistakes are not as widely believed in quite yet, and I would like to help clear some things up about why making mistakes is never wrong and why embracing mistakes can open up even better options.  

When Mistakes Are Right

Mistakes are never wrong, but the outcome of a mistake could be wrong in an occasion where it may hurt people. However, just because you or someone else accidentally said or did something that doesn’t sound right or isn’t done in the way it was originally planned doesn’t  mean it shouldn’t happen. 

These are the opportunities to learn, grow and change. These things happen all the time, so responding to yourself and others with forgiveness and flexibility will help heal the belief that “mistakes are wrong”.      

There Is No Wrong Way To Be

Everyone’s process is different and everyone learns differently. It isn’t wrong, it is only different. Our differences make us who we are, and who we are is a diverse society with so many truths, ways of learning and ways of being, that trying to conform into anyone else’s way is what makes us feel wrong. 

A lot of “mistakes” come from trying to be what others want us to be, and it’s like being given clothes that don’t fit and get told to make them work cause that’s how it is. Well, if I was trying on clothes that didn’t fit, I wouldn’t just make them work while feeling less than great in them, I would take them off and find clothes that did feel good to wear because they did fit very well. As that is where I would have felt the best. 

In other words, it is best to be in a place that recognizes and appreciates the unique ways that you work.      

Opportunities Through Mistakes

We can get a bit of tunnel vision at times with our process. How we want things to work and how we want things to turn out. Making a mistake pulls your mind out of your comfort zone in order to see other ways of reaching solutions and goals. 

Being outside your comfort zone is usually met with resistance and therefore the average reaction to a mistake is being hard on ourselves. 

However, with a different perspective we can learn to appreciate mistakes for showing us different ways and learning new tricks. Having a new understanding opens up new ways that end up being helpful, which would not have been known if you hadn’t made that one mistake. 

Conclusion

Mistakes are opportunities for something different. Therefore you or anyone else is never wrong for making them.You are never wrong; you are only wonderful just as you are. 

Making mistakes is only ever as hard and you make them to be. Seeing these as opportunities instead of something where you will get into trouble, will be when things begin to change. When your reaction changes over something you have done, so will the reactions of others.

Helpful Affirmation

“It is safe to make mistakes.”

Try This Today

Think about a task, job or skill you wish you were doing better at. You are likely making mistakes with it. Think about how things are turning out with the mistakes you make, and do your best to look at it a different way. Despite whether it did or didn’t turn out as you think it should have, how did it really turn out? How else could that outcome have a helpful effect?

Wishing you love, health & harmony,

Janette