The best way to accept your mistake: simple but effective principle for dealing with mistakes in life
A lot of us had a situation, when someone told we made a mistake and we got angry on that person, blamed others got anxious etc. Even they were true. We responded and reacted very impulsively. For example, yesterday in traffic driving a car I have “slept” during the green traffic light and the driver behind me beeped. I awake and hurried to move the car and I was very angry on the driver, because he beeped on me how he could he is not the master of the road. I intentionally drove very slowly to punish this “bad beeping driver” …
The situation when I am not right but I react impulsively and angrily, leads to no progress.
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing to admit it.
The effective rule for mistakes handling is as follows:
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acknowledge mistake instantly! understant that YOU are RESPONSIBLE for it, when correct it and learn from it.
Why to feel responsible for mistake? Because you must understant you master your life and you take responsibility for things. Of course you must take mistake with humour because only then you will treat it well. You will not be blaming others when you accept you are responsible for error. SO this way will let you start correcting and acting on mistake.
Of course you cannot correct the mistake, you can correct consequences of it.
After this procedure you can more easily forget your past actions and don’t worry about mistake or feel guilty. Its over. Go on further. Live further.
So remembering our previous situation, we could act as follows: After a beep of driver behind, we must analyse situation and as we understand we have slept during green light in traffic(acknowledge mistake), we begin to drive our car to clear a traffic jam (correct mistake), and we will remember to be more watchful (learn from mistake) next time , and that’s it . We can forget about the situation , we go easily on and do what we do in relaxed way.
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