Mistakes and the Magic Wand

No one can boast that they have not screwed up at least once in their lives. Even the so-called most successful people and filthy rich people will have more than one instance in their life or success journey when they have made wrong decisions or wrong choices, and have acted in glaringly unwise ways. Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, also confesses that he has committed blunders due to which he incurred losses to the tune of millions of dollars. He says, “If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle.” The points he and several such successful people insist on are that you have to learn from your mistakes, have self-belief, and develop the habit of thinking out-of-the-box to succeed in your life. Apart from desisting from committing the same mistakes, you have to avoid committing certain other mistakes as well. Let us dwell upon them a little more.

1. The decisions you make should never affect your credibility.

If you make decisions or if you act in a manner that can negatively impact your credibility, you will be affected in more than one way. Firstly, you will lose your self-confidence. When the whole world knows that you are a person with a low-credibility tag, you will be looked down upon. Such a situation will never allow you to act with focus and confidence and therefore, achieving your life's goal may become difficult.

2. Not building your goodwill account.

The foremost step to building a goodwill account is to develop relationships. The next and perhaps, more important step is to extend all possible support to those in your network. For example, if you are working for an organization, you should try to develop cordial relationships with other employees including your higher-ups and subordinates. You must then use every opportunity to extend your support to them. Only then, you can build and strengthen your goodwill account. Never forget the fact that if you ask for favors from those in your network, your efforts to build your goodwill account will get nullified. 

3. Not having a "success" mindset. 

If you want to succeed in achieving your career or life goal but if you have a mediocre mindset, you will never move an inch from where you are. For example, if you want to become a millionaire, you should have an "abundance" mindset. Similarly, if you want to have the career growth you have been aiming at, you must watch and emulate how your role model thinks, acts, and behaves. Your role model may be within your organization or he or she may have achieved phenomenal career growth in other fields.

Simply put, only if you transform the ways how you think and act, you can achieve what you want. Similarly, you must be ready to take the required action as well. A classic example is the case of a person who wishes to shed his extra pounds. Unless this person wakes up early and hits the gym regularly and on a daily basis, he cannot accomplish his aim. If he keeps procrastinating taking action or if he does not get into the action habit, he will never lose his excess baggage on his corporeal frame. In other words, having mediocre habits such as not taking the required action or having a negative mindset, and aiming high may tantamount to oxymoron-like situations.

So, in order to achieve the success you have been aiming at, you must refrain from committing these mistakes. Once you put yourself on the path of doing the right things at the right time, you can pretty well assume that the magic wand that can get you phenomenal success has become yours.