...As long as you learn from your mistakes, nothing is lost. Even your mistakes made are then one of ‘all things’ which work together for good for them that love Me. As long as you come to Me, and I can teach you about the things you did wrong or could do better, there’s no need for remorse, which never helped much, anyway. But you can turn right around, determine to keep an eye on that weakness, ask Me to help you be on guard & ‘deliver you from evil’, strengthen the feeble knees & the hands that hang down, & go to work on building new, healthier habits. And that’s what you call ‘progress’ & learning. Mistakes are an essential part of the meaning of life. It’s just the inborn sinful human nature not to want to obey me at first. The Devil comes up with his contra immediately & pipes up, ....’Sssssso, did God reaaally ssssay ssso...?’ And you know what’ll happen next. You’ll make a mistake. Call it a sin – you miss the mark. I have to punish you, you learn the lesson, and that’s the cycle of things at the present state of creation under the curse. It will not always be so. This is only practice with weights, so that soon you’ll be able to fly. It took that road of humbling, the road of making mistakes, the road of failure, to come to the realization of My unconditional love for you. You cannot turn back time, and everyone has made mistakes, but you’re not meant to make the same mistakes over & over. Some mistakes you don’t even realize until much later, some only when you get here...
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...Writing has always been an outlet me. I find comfort in writing to getting my feelings and emotions down on paper. Once I get into thought about a topic the words just flow and I maintain a good rhythm. I really enjoy writing, however, critiquing my own writing, as well as correcting can be a struggle for me at times, but I have come a long way from where I first started, when my first semester in college. As I began to look through my grades for my writing in human behavior and the social environment, I found they were pretty good grades. Out of the five assignments that I compared my average grade was an 86. which breaks down to two 90’s and two 83’s and one 84. I am satisfied with these grades and they seem fair. This semester was the first time I have used APA formatting. Using APA format has...
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...managers. These managers are very hypocritical by not doing any meaningful work themselves, but only serve to micromanage employees and give them menial tasks when they make mistakes or appear to be not working. One example of this is her boss Stu at Hearthside: When, on a particularly dead afternoon, Stu finds me glancing at a USA Today a customer has left behind, he assigns me to vacuum the entire floor with the broken vacuum cleaner, which has a handle only two feet long, and the only way to do that without incurring orthopedic damage is to proceed from spot to spot on your knees. (94) Luckily, ineffective and disrespectful bosses like Stu are not common in Florida. If he had made some changes in his management style, the working atmosphere at Hearthside would have been better. No one deserves that kind of treatment from their employer. I have interviewed several people who have...
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... “Freedom to Make Mistakes” No man or woman lives a perfect life. We get caught up on how people in our society perceive us that we try to live to their expectations. Life wouldn’t have any value if we didn’t make mistakes. When I think about mistakes it instantly brings me back to my adolescence years when I attended middle school. I didn’t have many friends because I was the new girl in class, eventually I made friends. I was a virgin amongst my other friends, they all had had sexual relations with older males I was the only one out of my circle who didn’t have sex. I didn’t know anything about sex so when my friends would sit and talk about their experiences I would automatically feel left out. The peer pressure from my friends finally got to me. I hated not being able to relate to them when they talked about sex. It was the last day of my eighth grade year and also the last day of me being a virgin. Being young and naïve this older guy fed me a load of bull so I could engage in sexual intercourse with him. When I arrived home I thought to myself that this is all wrong, I’ve made the biggest mistake in my life. I felt ashamed, used, and stupid. I could not believe what I had done I regretted the whole situation, I was a totally different person after that day. Weeks had passed and I didn’t bother telling my mom that her innocent daughter had sex with an older guy. My mom had noticed that my breasts were getting larger than they normally were so she demanded that...
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...Human? Yes big fella we’re all human and it’s in our nature to make mistakes. It is just something that happens whether you like it or not. Even the richest people in the world right now have made mistakes. Take Donald Trump for example, the guy ,over the course of his career of a businessman, has been over nine billion dollars in debt. Of course the losses did not all happen at one time , but still it's a substantial amount altogether. Though my mistakes do not compare to the ones Trump has made, three mistakes I have made in my life, which I have learned from, include disregarding the importance of education, start smoking weed, caring about these females. My first mistake was disregarding education and it first started when I was in the fifth grade. From the first grade onto fourth I was a great student academically; I always had...
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...The Mistake Were Made (but not by me) is written by social psychologists, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. The book demonstrated into big mistake that people make and refuse to admit, unable to recognize own mistakes and “cognitive dissonance”, hard reality and confirmation bias. Also, he elaborated deep into when we have a difficult time integrating two conflicting beliefs such as “ I am a great person” and “ I messed up “cognitive dissonance The author support his facts with experiences on people and evidences. And also author explains about self-justification has cost and benefit, and puzzling human behaviors such as why do people do the thing they do? The most striking thing about Mistake were made but not by me are follows: ★ Why We...
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...A situation in which I made a mistake was back in the seventh grade. My teacher assigned a project which my group and I had to present a project on ancient China. To ensure everyone was on task, we were to choose a leader who would make sure everyone was doing their work. I was chosen to be the leader and that's when things started to go downhill. We first had to vote whether we wanted to present by using a slideshow, or Prezi, but because I was leader, I insisted on creating a video. Although a video may seem like a good idea, we only had a week to complete it. By telling everyone they had to listen to me because I was leader, they agreed with me. Now fast forward a few days, the project was almost due and we were nowhere near finished. Instead...
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...Never Make the Same Mistake Twice Latisha Tucker Everest College Short Narrative Essay: Never Make the Same Mistake Twice I have had to learn the hard way of what my parents meant when they used to always tell me to never make the same mistake twice. I did not figure out what they were truly saying to me until I started my own life and began to make an endless number of mistakes. I learned from life’s experiences that the only way you could truly live up to this saying is when you make a complete transformation from your old ways. My life took some tremendous turns in March of 1997 when I gave birth to my first born son. I was only a child myself so I was completely clueless about what was going on in my life at the time. This was the moment when I had to make a decision to change my life for the better simply because I had a child to take care of. It was so hard for me to believe that I was a junior in high school and seventeen years old ,holding a newborn baby in my arms at the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Everything that I once knew changed and all I wanted to focus on was being a better person for my child. I wasn’t a bad person but I made bad choices that I always ended up suffering the consequences for. When I arrived home from the hospital I immediately started going through a metamorphosis. My dedication was fully directed towards my mother for being so supportive and for assisting me and equipping me with what I needed to be successful as a teen parent and...
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...Workplace My role as manager requires me to observe all loss prevention issues and perform the necessary disciplinary action associated with them. When observing employee issues and assessing the disciplinary action previously taken in the past, I noticed the course of action for offenders was limited. You simply were reprimanded once and fired if the problem persisted. I initially thought this was unfair to our employees because every problem did not warrant the same disciplinary action. After critical examination of possible solutions to the disciplinary process within our company, I concluded management should implement better training for its employees. This would help in our attempts to maximize production and minimize employee mistakes. After evaluating this argument and eliminating other possible solutions and assumptions, I decided this resolution would be best for our company as well as our employees. By providing extensive training to our employees, we would cut down on employee errors and correct mistakes that have been previously made in the past. While starting the process of implementing the new training for our employees, I realized the solution of providing training was a good idea for our company and its employees; however, this solution did not completely solve the original problem of the actual disciplinary action that would be used when an employee made a mistake on the job. This realization forced me to refine my previous solution to the company’s...
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...Self Analysis In this essay, I’m sharing with you some of the struggles I endured as a teenager and explain how I learned from the lot of mistakes I made. Looking back and reflecting on my life I can now see that I have made many mistakes. Most of my mistakes I have made were due to my lack of patience and never listening to the older family members. If I had listened to their words of wisdom, I would have saved myself a lot of trouble and headaches. Instead of taking their advice, I took my own path and did things my way. Just like any teenagers, I want to spend my time doing crazy and stupid things. I hate being nagged by my parents. They always want me to clean the house, wash dishes, study and all the crazy stuffs I hate. They always said that “This is for your own good” and I got so irritated every time I hear those words. As a teenager, I want to do things on my own. I want to enjoy life. Play arcade games, hang-out with friends, go somewhere. It seemed as if the more I did not listen, the deeper the hole I dug myself. I remember my mother told me “What goes around comes around.” I started dating a lot of girls around when I turned thirteen. I did not take into consideration the feelings of the girls that I talked to at all. I met a girl and fell in love with her but she didn’t feel the same way about me as I felt as I felt about her. My heart was broken and all I could think about was the lecture I received from my mother about karma. And now,...
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... Growing up wasn’t the happy, bubby experience that my fellow friends were having. As an immigrant family, moving here from Iran when I was the age of 2, my parents had no experience in parenting but all the fear in the world. They left Iran in the peak of the Iran Iraq war and had no idea what they were doing, where they were going, or how they were going to do it. Their state of mind was simply survival. This didn’t set the best foundation for a functional, healthy family. Out of fear and terror, they tried to protect me by keeping me out of harms way. They whole motto was to protect me and keep me sheltered and this would keep me safe. This did not allow for me to make mistakes and learn on my own. Because of this, one of the external barriers I had was the both of my parents. It wasn’t until I turned 18 and I decided to rebel and revolt and learn and break through to make my own mistakes and experience the things that a teenager does, that things started to shift. This caused a huge uproar and constant battle in the family and then we started working with a therapist. The therapist explained to them that they had to cut the umbilical chord and let me fly. This postponed some of my critical thinking evolution and I made some mistakes that I should have learned at a younger age, but it was better late than never. An internal, emotional barrier I had was stubbornness. As far as the internal obstacles were concerned, I was my biggest enemy. My ego quite often got in my way, and...
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...In life we perform various actions of which before performing we do not think the consequences of; it is only after experiencing the effects of it that we are able to highlight the causes. People behave the way the way they do because of their past, their past experiences in life, how they were treated, and what events occurred in their life, what paths and methods they were influenced or forced to chose. All these can be causes for a person behaving or acting the way he does. Same is the case with me. I did not realize the actions I did were good or bad until I saw the side effects of them. The side effects were evident through the different events that occurred in my life later on. The realization came to me only after experiencing those events. The realization was a gradual process.(transition) Few months back I got admission in IBA, in the field of BBA. It is considered to be one of the top universities for bachelors in business administration in Pakistan. In the first couple of weeks everything sailed smoothly, and I thought I was on top of the world. But as the saying goes, everything that goes up must come down, and so I to had a downfall. As time passed on I noticed and felt something strange. Every day I used to have that same feeling. It was as if I was lacking in something, maybe it was that I could not fit with my mates, or not enjoying the university life. For about a weak I could not figure out what had went wrong, and what I should do. But the day finally arrived...
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...“Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning” by Alix Spiegel talks about how different places around the world have different ways of teaching. One thing I read in the article was that in America it’s believed that everyone is born with intelligence and if someone struggles then they have little intelligence. Ever since I was in my very first math class I always dreaded being called on to share my answer with the class. The fear of announcing the wrong answer would race through my mind causing me to be afraid. But why are we afraid to make mistakes? When we make mistakes it’s just proving that we are trying. According to, Henri “Even worse, once you’ve come up with an imaginary threat, you tend to imagine what...
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...basketball As you know, your human and so am I and we are not perfect. We all will make mistakes in our life time at some point or another. Those mistakes we make we shouldn’t knock ourselves for. Instead, we should learn from our mistakes. There is one mistake that I made that stands out the most and that I regret more than others. I stopped playing basketball after my freshman year of high school. Not a day goes by that I don’t regret setting the ball down and walking out of Case Arena, my high school gym. Basketball has always been a ritual so to speak, in my family. When I learned how to walk as a baby, the first toy that was given to me was a basketball. Then before you knew it, I was learning the beginning fundamentals of the game. At the age of five was when the game of basketball was really being stressed to me. My mother made sure that I had one of those stand up basketball goals in my toy room. In addition, for the most part I would be in the toy room shooting the basketball for hours on in. Since I was young, the ball wouldn’t go in the basket most of the time of course, but it was the whole concept of bettering my skills and abilities. The years went by and I got older, and my skills began to better and better. Then one day I was in the fifth grade, on the team, and ready as ever to begin playing competitive basketball. My mom knew that when the season started up that she wouldn’t be seeing me as much anymore. The reason being was because I was outside practicing every minute...
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...that the message can be understood correctly by the receiver. The most common form of communication between co-workers and clients would be the use of emails and there may be sometimes that an honest mistake with the email can cause for a lack of understatement and confusion. When I was an insurance salesperson, I wrote an email to a client, reminding the client of their payment and I had written the email with the Caps Lock. This made the email as if I was yelling at the client about her payment when in reality I was trying to just be polite and remind her of the payment so that the payment would not be late. The next day, I received and email from my district manager stating that I needed to get in contact with her immediately because the client had contacted her about the email. After contacting the district manager and explaining to her the honest mistake that I had made, she informed me that I needed to email the client and explain to her that I was not trying to yell at her but that I was only trying to help to remind her about her payment. When I contacted the client, I expressed how truly sorry about the email and that I promised the mistake would never happen again. The client understood and told me that she had made some of the same mistakes that I had made. That mistake was very embarrassing and I learned that when I am typing anything...
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