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Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself 
It is easy to spend much of your days beating up on yourself for past mistakes. We analyze that relationship that 
failed and relentlessly review all the things we did wrong. Or we look at that business decision that cost us so 
much and dwell on the things we could have done right. Once and for all stop being so hard on yourself. You 
are a human being and human beings have been designed to make mistakes. As long as you don’t keep making 
the same errors and have the good judgment to let your past serve you, you will be on the right track. Accept 
them and move on. As Mark Twain wrote, “we should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom 
that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. It will never sit down on a 
hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also it will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” 
Coming to the realization that we all make mistakes and that they are essential to our growth and 
progress is liberating. We lost the need to be perfect and adopt a saner way of viewing our lives. We can begin 
to flow through life the way a mountain stream flows through a leafy forest, powerfully yet gracefully. We can 
finally be at peace with our true nature. 
An excellent way to raise to a higher level of enlightenment and personal wisdom is to make a list of the 
ten biggest mistakes you have made in your life on the left – hand side of a page within your journal. Then, on 
the right hand side, write down the corresponding lessons you have learned from every mistake and the benefits 
that actually flowed into your life as a result of those so – called failures. You will soon see that your life would 
not be as rich and colorful without the mistakes of your past. So be gentler to yourself and see life for what it 
really is: a path of self – discovery, personal growth and lifelong learning. 

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