Picture yourself gratefully receiving and accepting a life-changing gift - the gift of making mistakes, and failing. By giving yourself and others the gift of making mistakes and permission to fail, you will be allowing others and yourself to succeed faster.

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way, unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." Al Franken

Failure is defined as the condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends.

Mistakes are defined as an error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.

Rare thinking people like you already know that many of the very successful people from various fields failed numerous times before achieving their goals.

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy

Remember when you first stopped to think about the following:

In America, a baseball player can sign a contract, which pays him a few million dollars a year... that same player misses the ball more often than he hits it when he steps up to the plate. The statistics for Babe Ruth are - for the 714 home runs he hit he struck out 1,330 time

You have most certainly heard of Michael Jordan who was kicked off of his high school basketball team on his way to becoming the legend he is today.

It is said that Thomas Edison attempted 10,000 different filaments before successfully creating the electric light bulb. In his mind none of his attempts were failures. They were each successful experiments in finding out what didn't work!

Henry Ford went bankrupt 3 times before he created a car that worked.

Colonel Sanders was 65 years old when he tried to sell his chicken recipe. He took this recipe to over 1,000 restaurants before he found a buyer.

Walt Disney spoke with over 297 banks before he was able to attain a loan for his successful dream.

The list of mistakes and failures prior to great success goes on and on. The one common denominator in each case is that the individual gave themselves the gift of making mistakes and experiencing failure.

Are you beginning to see that you may be intellectually and externally believing that it is o.k. to make mistakes, but that subconsciously you may not be giving yourself permission to make mistakes?

If you are not currently where you want to be, if you are not living your dreams and your purpose - there is likely something inside of you that is holding you back from accepting that it is alright and even good for you to make mistakes and possibly experience failure. You may not really believe that errors and failure are a necessary part of the process before you reach your definition of success. There is in fact no way around it.

Do you realize that when you are starting something new, you cannot be seeing the success right away as you are in the process of learning this new skill?

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