Can you imagine a phone keypad or computer keyboard without a backspace or delete key? Can you imagine pencils without erasers? Can you imagine a world in which there was no way to correct a mistake? Even our bodies come with erasers that can correct years of poor eating and health habits. Antibodies in our immune system act as corrective agents helping us erase things that may have mistakenly entered our system.
Fortunately, life allows us to correct many of the mistakes we make and even when we cannot correct a mistake, if we keep living and making good decisions, we can learn from them and build better lives because of them. So, don’t get trapped in the web of guilt, shame, and addiction that often follows our mistakes and errors. Each mistake is an opportunity to learn a new way of doing something.
Being
disciplined for success in our lives does not mean doing everything right the
first time. It means disciplining
ourselves to use our mistakes as learning lessons so that we don’t become stuck
in the cycle of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.