Mistakes Are Valuable

I’m growing cauliflower
for the first time
this year.

I doubt I’ll harvest
any cauliflower.

I started the plants
at the wrong time.

I didn’t cover them
with insect netting.

I made many, MANY
other mistakes.

And that’s okay.
That should be expected.

When we do anything
for the first time
-start our first business,
produce our first product,
make our first sales call,
etc.
-we WILL make mistakes.

Those mistakes,
if we learn from them,
are valuable.

Knowing what NOT to do
increases our odds
of success
the next time.

Learn from the mistake,
ensure you don’t make it again,
and move on.

Gaze Forward

A loved one
often
replays the bad decisions
in his life.
He dwells on them.

And that is causing him
to make more bad decisions.

While he’s thinking constantly
about the past,
he’s missing opportunities
in the present.

If we drive forward
while
gazing constantly
behind us,
we’ll crash.
We should glance behind us
once or twice
briefly
and then concentrate
on the road before us.

Study the past.
Learn from it.
Then take those lessons
and focus on the present
and
the future.