Learning opportunities

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

Every mistake is an opportunity to improve. Learn from your own mistakes to avoid repeating them. Learn from other people’s mistakes so you can avoid making the same ones.

Reflect on your mistakes with compassion. You did the best you could at the time. Evaluating the choices you made enables you to be better in the future.

Consider other people’s mistakes, but make your own decision. It’s possible that a similar choice could turn out better for you.

What do you do to avoid and learn from mistakes?

2 Comments

  1. Pat

    Setting my priorities is a problem, because I seem to value other peoples’ more.
    This only leaves me with tiny windows of opportunity to take care of my needs.
    This conflict of choices leads to most of my “mistakes.”
    Not learning much from it all… just getting dizzy. 🤪
    This time of year is more about Family & traditions than anything else.
    Thus we make New Years resolutions!

    • Jim Chaput

      This is a tough one. Putting family first can seem thoughtful…but you need to take care of yourself so you are well enough to be there for them.

      After Thanksgiving might be a good time to reflect on what’s working well and what could be better. No need to wait until the new year.