Our inner critic, along with the criticism of others, readily remind of us mistakes we've made. Unfortunately, mistakes are often hard to forget. Mistakes are hard to forgive. Mistakes can mess with our hearts, heads and lives. Can we do anything to help ourselves against the battles that mistakes bring?
Everybody is guilty of making mistakes, so let's be clear that we are not in a lane by ourselves. That understanding in itself, should help us make room for some logical processing when it comes to making the mistakes that we do.
If it's a little thing, we should just let it go. If it's a bigger thing, we need to look for solutions. Can it be fixed? Is there redemption? Get to the answers. If we are lazy about rectifying our bloopers, they really can become more and more difficult to deal with, or navigate when it's possible to alter the outcome. We can cry and wallow, feeling sorry for ourselves, or pursue some type of game plan, even if the only game plan is forgiving ourselves for it.
Life is manageable in more ways that we think, THINK being a critical and key factor in the management of stuff, things, and mistakes. Since mistakes seem to play such a devastating role in how we roll with the blunders we create, both common sense and uncommon sense can help. Common sense says "it's going to be okay. I'm going to be okay, mistakes happen."
Uncommon use of your common sense pretty much says the same things, as well as putting plans, pursuits and possibilities in action that tackles the fixable mistakes. It's common for us to brush things off. It's uncommon for us to look mistakes we make in the eye and work in them and through them with radical and right thinking.
Since the mistakes will keep on coming, learn to live with them, and especially learn to master how you handle them. Most mistakes probably won't kill you, and it's not the end of the world either. So, don't be so tough on yourself. Be tougher with every "fix it" mechanism at your disposal whenever you can, and you can. ~ S.R.F.
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