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How To Stop Making The Same Mistakes
Mistakes are a part of life. There is no way around them. If you live for any length of time and seek to do anything worthwhile one thing I can guarantee you is that you will make some mistakes. With that being said, how can we stop making the same mistakes? Well here are three steps to help you.
1. Make An Informed Decision This may seem like a no brainer but the reality is that we often make mistakes because we don’t have all of the information. Now, this can come one of two ways. Number one, the information is purposefully withheld from us because the outcome benefits someone else greater than it does us. Number two, we don’t do our due diligence to make sure we have all of the pieces we need to make our decision. This can be increasingly hard given the quick pace of the life that we live today but it’s needed to keep from making the same mistakes.
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2. Take Your Time Going back to what I just mentioned, we are living life at breakneck speed. Things never seem to slow down. But when it comes making decisions about the life we have to have a ‘Crock Pot” approach. Almost every time I have made a snap decision, they have cost me more than I wanted to pay. Thinking things through has never brought anyone regrets. Now, on the other hand, talking too long to answer can work against you as well but not taking your time is a sure way to get burned. (Don’t ask me how I know… LOL… :-D )
3. Learn From Other People’s Mistakes This should be taught in every school in the world. By watching other we learn what not to do. Someone once said that you learn more from failure than you do success. They also say that experience is the best teacher. But what if you could learn the lesson without taking the loss? What if you could get wiser from watching other people mistake? If you made that practice then you could be light years ahead of your competition and your peers. If you put into practice these 3 steps, you will reduce an eventually eliminate making the same mistakes over and over again.
~Cicone Prince
