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“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”

A thought by John C. Maxwell, (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 6). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

Yesterday afternoon after I had written my blog I was reading it and realized that I had left a word out and I had also misspelled a couple of words.  I had already sent it out on the internet super highway with these mistakes.  Now I had a couple of options.  I could have gone to my dashboard and deleted the whole blog feeling ashamed and defeated vowing to never write a blog ever again or I could add the word and fix the misspelled words and then repost and come back again today striving to do better proof reading and here I am today. 

Now I don’t like making mistakes but at least I am trying to make a difference, mistakes and all.  I like another statement that John made, “To become intentional about growing, (which we were dealing with in yesterday’s blog) expect to make mistakes every day, and welcome them as a sign that you are moving in the right direction.”  Welcome them as a sign that you are moving in the right direction.  Not trying because you are afraid of making mistakes means no progress.  Making mistakes is a better option because you are at least doing something and there is always something to learn from mistakes. 

Jesus told a story about giving out talents to some guys, telling them to invest them.  One of them was afraid of making a mistake and displeasing his boss so he went out and hid his talent.   When the giver of the talents came back to find how they had done he was mad at the guy and took his talent that he had hidden and gave it to one of the other guys who had doubled his talent. Not trying because of his fear of making a mistake blew a tremendous opportunity for the guy.

We are each one given personal potential to use, to better and to grow and mistakes will be made.  They will happen.  Learn from them and move forward.   They should not be stopping stones but stepping stones to realizing your full potential.

So what was your last mistake?
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