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Embrace Your Mistakes

Everyone would prefer success over failure.

Leann Zotis
Live Your Life On Purpose
3 min readJul 14, 2019

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Winning feels good and validating. Losing seems to indicate you just don’t measure up or maybe you’re just out of your league.

Still, a goal that easily achieved probably wasn’t worth that much to begin with. Mistakes, failures and wrong turns on the road to success deserve a positive acknowledgment on your part.

Mistakes point out only too well what you did wrong. Doing the wrong thing once, twice or fifty times, helps you narrow the field of options to achieving your goal.

Eventually, if you don’t give up, you might just stumble across the right formula to accomplish your goal. In most cases, there is more than one pathway to success. The more you experience and deal with what can go wrong, the more you will be ready to recognize what is going right.

FIND YOUR TRIBE

It is a commonly shared cliché that “misery loves company.” You may find yourself making a lot of friends and allies as you make mistakes along the way.

There is power in alliances. You will meet others who have tried and failed, tried and succeeded or simply tried and tried again. This is a great platform for learning and building on what others…

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Leann Zotis
Live Your Life On Purpose

Writer in Live Your Life on Purpose, Great Writing Tips, Fat Daddy’s Farm and The Startup Author of seven ebooks on Amazon. vital2women@gmail.com