It is time to let go of your mistakes

We carry many things with us throughout the day, our wallets, cell phones and keys which are helpful tools for our adult lifestyle. But what if we carried around a blender, microwave and toaster with us as well? It would be pointless as it is not only unnecessary but would be a huge burden to lug around every day.

This is much like the mistakes you made in the past events of your life that you carry around completely unnecessarily. Many people carry around a huge amount of baggage for mistakes of their past, most of that baggage have already served its purpose and should be filed in the lesson learned bin. Mistakes happen as they are supposed to; Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before harnessing electricity. Babe Ruth struck out thousands of times yet we all know of his successes. Neither of them accomplished these great tasks by focusing and dwelling on their failures. They learned from it, let it go and moved on.

For some, they wear mistakes like a scarlet letter and it may not be as easy to let go of this negative mental sludge, but there are ways to encourage this transition. Write a list of everything you feel you messed up with, look at it intently and write what positive things you took out of those experiences. Make peace with those events and thank them for bringing you to the moment you’re living right now. Then destroy the list and with that destruction of paper know that they are gone and forgiven forever in your heart. Now, it is time to let go and make a list of all the victories you have achieved as well as all the things you’re grateful for; feel free to carry that around, as that will fit easily in your pocket and will serve you well.