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Today's Index4Index Daily Inspired Motivation is about learning to thrive from our mistakes, instead of allowing them to bring us down. This is a ridiculously more useful, effective, and fulfilling way of relating with our mistakes than many of us have been taught!
"We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones."
-Henry Cloud
One of the most important things around truly learning and thriving from our mistakes is to remove the emotional charge that we may have around making them. Not taking our mistakes personally, in other words, and being willing to see them as an opportunity to learn and improve.
Having acceptance, compassion, and understanding for ourselves around the mistakes that we make is also very important. Making mistakes is part of our learning proceas as humans, and it's not only OK, but it's actually a very good and beautiful thing!
We can all learn, grow, and yes, thrive, from the mistakes that we make, however we must be open and willing to do so. When we are able to come to this place of open willingness, our relationship with our mistakes will seem to have radically transformed from something that we dread to something that elicits inquisitive curiosity within us. That is a very good place to be indeed! Are you ready to shift your perspective and relationship around making mistakes? I promise it's a lot more fun!
Remember, dear friends, that we are all in this together, that we rise by lifting others, and that together we thrive, so onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙