Mistakes, Losses & Disappointments

<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <a href="http://mentalitywod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1795749_617292818339327_1006388009_n.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042fed; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="1795749_617292818339327_1006388009_n" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7294" height="225" src="http://mentalitywod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1795749_617292818339327_1006388009_n-300x225.jpg" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 5px auto; max-width: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Mistakes, losses, disappointments, setbacks and failures. I really don’t like any of those words and don’t use them much at all.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Here’s why.</div> <ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.05em; word-wrap: break-word;">Many people think about losses or failures as very negative events, and that can be very damaging to self-confidence.</span></li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> But, when you view these experiences as valuable, helpful and necessary to your growth…then they don’t seem so damaging after all.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> I love this quote</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px 1em; padding-left: 12px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"> “I have not failed seven hundred times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those seven hundred ways will not work. When I have eliminated all the ways that will not work, I will find that way that will work.” -Thomas Edison</div> </blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> You can make every experience work for you in a positive way.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Here’s how</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> 1. After a loss, mistake or setback, think about reframing that event as a “stepping stone” to get you to where you want to go. You need that experience to make you better.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; word-wrap: break-word;"> 2. Write down at least 2 things you can learn from that experience that you can help you improve for next time.</div>

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Mistakes, Losses & Disappointments

Mistakes, losses, disappointments, setbacks and failures. I really don’t like any of those words and don’t use them much at all. Here’s...