I err. That's the most exciting thing about my humanity. Based on my choices influenced by my ego, haste, complexes, biases, stereotypes, indoctrination and more, I fail. But this is not the biggest discovery for me. The biggest revelation for me is that I know these things and I daily work towards making amendments.
Equally too, some of these have helped me win, but let me just focus on the lessons from my errors. I understand my errors to be lessons. These life lessons based on experiences that have drawn me back have always helped me launch forward stronger and more powerfully than any other thing.
My mistakes, errors and failures do not define me, but they have always helped me to chart fresh courses of action to aid my life and the values I represent. I find that when I either succeed or fail in any venture, I remain the person that I am. Though I learn more through the experience, my being stays my being. So, neither my error nor my right define me.
Going through this model of learning has left me with indelible marks which are the scars of memorials for me today. I have read many books and listened to many accounts. None of them is half as worthy in terms of accomplishments as this. I always crave to do. That lets me know that I cannot do enough till my time is up.
Accomplishment is a tough call indeed for in it the school of fulfillment rests. Without the knowledge and pursuit of purpose, accomplishment stays a fantasy because no man is yet accomplished except he who finds his purpose and lives same to the evaluation of the one who purposed him to same. Only the one who purposes knows.
Many times I have found myself alone in my wilderness because of the desertions I experience from my failures, but I equally learned that alone does not mean lonely because I have spent those limbic moments reflecting as I lick my wounds. The results are always phenomenal.
Learning this way has never been an easy ride for me. Though fearful, I have never sought an easy way out of anything. I often rushed to the courage bank to borrow and apply same to my engagements. This has not only always worked, it has proved a worthy guide for the future.
Courage has taught me to know what not to be afraid of because I learn to seek to know through experiencing things. With courage I explore my fears. The more I know of my fears, the less fearful I get about them. Courage is thus my strong weapon and everywhere I find it in others, I applaud and celebrate it.
I find that fear always lurks around. I realize that it's human to be afraid and I cherish my humanity every single day. This is the reason that gratitude is always an able assistant for me. I use gratitude daily. Gratitude is a song on my lips because it dwells in my heart.
I am grateful for everything because everything is a gift. Gratitude has been a source of great strength for me. It's never failed. In gratitude is hidden a mystery of invaluable proportions. With it, I am everything that I am. Without it, I don't know what I'd be.
Cherishing my mistakes and being thankful for them has ironically never permitted my intellect to desire a repeat. Something within seems to be wired to that effect even if the mistakes still happen sometimes. At those moments I weep because I realize and accept my vulnerabilities.
This has helped me greatly in the area of choosing masterminds and using the value of interdependence. I know where I need help and support. This helps me manage my activities within the time that I have no control over.
Knowing your weakness is strength in itself. The same applies to wisdom. You won't know to whom you can reach out for counsel unless you know who is wiser or more informed than you are in the area that you need counsel. My weaknesses become a guide as well as my strengths. Each serves its purpose.
My mistakes belong in my past and my past is a part of me. Why would I hastily throw away that through which much practical wisdom and experiential knowledge are bequeathed to me? To the school of thought of cherishing my scars do I belong and in that school I have grown to live, to know, to care, to become, and to love for all time in my sojourn.
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