{"id":264,"date":"2008-08-19T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-08-19T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T19:57:16","slug":"dealing-with-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/blog\/life\/dealing-with-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ireland\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We all make mistakes, and if you’re sensitive you can feel pretty bad about them. It’s not a pleasant experience but we need to try and make the best of even difficult situations. When you make mistakes and your whole world turns upside down, these are some strategies to cope.<\/p>\n

Don’t Be Burdened with Guilt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a previous post, we looked at how to avoid being overburdened with guilt<\/a>. Guilt is not a helpful emotion, it just aggravates the feeling of despondency. We should also avoid being embarrassed. Just look at a few politicians; a few mistakes don’t stop them being pubic figures.<\/p>\n

The art of Apology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some mistakes we can apologise for. We don’t need to lose self-respect, we need to just apologise calmly and sincerely. It requires a certain strength to apologise and admit mistakes, but, it is a necessary step to moving forward.<\/p>\n

Don’t Dwell on Mistake Too much<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mind can magnify a relatively small mistake and make it feel of tremendous importance. Don’t keep going through the problem in your mind, wishing you had done things differently. If we think about problems too much it can give them an undeserved importance and we become overburdened with them.<\/p>\n

Don’t Try to Justify It.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes we give a mistake too much importance and significance; but, at other times we try to ignore it or justify it to ourselves. When we try to justify a mistake and the mind tries to blame it on other people, this is not good. Making mistakes is not the end of the world, but, we do need to learn from them. If we just try to distort reality then we will not be able to learn and move forward from the mistake.<\/p>\n