Don’t take your mistakes personal! Your mistakes are not you! A huge confidence killer is believing that you and your mistakes are one. It’s just another way of counting yourself out, and committing to self doubt! What I mean is, with your attempts in life,you may encounter a few mistakes along the way and miss your targets. The worst thing to do is create a “I’m hopeless attitude” towards your future endeavors. NEWS FLASH: You will make some wrong turns along the way, and end up at a few dead ends. Regardless your past mistakes and wrong judgment calls are not you!

Learning to separate your failures and mistakes from you, will make all of the difference in your life!

If a person failed at a business, should he/she not dust himself/herself off and try again? If shooting a shot proves to be unsuccessful should a child never pick up a basketball again? Why people associate themselves with their past failures, if their goal is to succeed? It doesn’t make any sense, yet millions of people live by this self destructing belief system!

If a child falls of off a bike, because he is learning how to ride for the first time. Do you encourage him to continue to ride, or do you tell him you are always going to fall, you were born to fall at everything… so get used to it!

Despite how many times you’ve missed, screwed up, fell, and failed. It’s not you! It’s a situation in your life. Continue to be optimistic about your future! No matter how many times you’ve lost, continue to believe you are a winner!

Never let an event outside of you, determine who you are inside!

Action: Separate your mistakes and failures from you!

Kenneth R Williams