Values of mistakes and errors

By Erik Nilsson

-^^^istakes and errors are the disciplined true

which we advance in life. Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations, and who are able to learn from those mistakes. And in order to learn from mistakes you must be willing to pay for them.

Mistakes can be enormously valuable, but when you try to get others to pay for your mistakes, then you deprive yourself of the opportunity to learn from them. When something goes wrong, it^s usually very easy to find some­one else to blame, but what does that really accomplish?

Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they demand a cost that must be paid. The person

who learns the most from a mistake is the person who pays the price for that mistake.

When you make a mistake, the only thing you want to do is run away from it. You need to face it because you can learn a lot from it. The mistake has been made, so make the most of it. Pay the price, learn the lesson, and grow that much stronger.

When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Remember the reason for it, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. the present is still in your power. Take full advantage of your mistakes to achieve your goals and aspirations.

Happiness through honorable actions

By Rose Bolger

〇 you want to live with a strong sense of

peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly catego­rized (把........归类） as “honor” help you create thislife of good feelings.

Here’s an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.

Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky (

cess , we would lose some peace of mind and self-re spect. We would also demonstrate (演（）that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honor­able. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take hon­orable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility(

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excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.

Then , what is it to do with our sense of happiness?

In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the pro

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There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s start­ed, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.

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