"I ACCEPT MY MISTAKES AND LET THEM CONTRIBUTE TO MY LEARNING AND GROWTH"
"The price I must pay for any knowledge is to discover it for myself. I must learn my own lessons - I must make my own mistakes. I must pay my own consequences. The knowledge that I gain presents me with a challenge. I can choose to remain where I am and stagnate or I can choose to grow.
My goal is to be able to look at myself and feel good about my achievements and my mistakes. I understand that the choices I have made are neither good nor bad, but wise or unwise. I can neutralize feelings of guilt and shame when I realize that past inadequacies were dependent upon my particular state of awareness at that time.
When I look back at past situations with newly-acquired awareness, I wonder how I could have been so naive or unintelligent. I will treat myself kindly today as I realize that I was not as aware then as I am now.
Today I accept that my life is, to date, the best that I can accomplish. I will continue to improve as I grow in success and in wisdom."
Good Stuff! I can also re-evaluate my process for acquiring new information. I don't have to jump in with both feet first. I can ask for help from people who have been there and done that successfully or not. I can create expectations based on wise counsel, instead of my lofty ideals that lack experience. I can also expect to have difficulty when trying something new, and give myself a break when it doesn't go perfectly.
