There are no mistakes!

One of the foundation principles we discussed during my 8 month professional coach training program was, “There are NO mistakes.” When our coaching trainer said that one, you should have heard the flurry of comments and discussion that ensued. It was most interesting.

There was the auto-pilot response. You know, there is a lesson in every situation, look for the brighter sign, everything happens for a reason.

There was the emotional response. “You mean to tell me that a person, who has been drinking gets behind the wheel of a car, isn’t a mistake?” This was certainly something to get your mind churning for logic and reason behind this foundation principle.

But the comment that generated the greatest and most intensely emotional reaction was merely three characters long…9-1-1.

I don’t know. True or false, what do you think? Are there really NO mistakes?

My vote is true, there are no mistakes. You see, at every given moment we are in a place of choice. Whether it be a conscious, deliberate choice or and automatic response driven by the subconscious we have a choice.  Which means- given all the facts, the knowledge you have gained up to that point, and your state of mind, at every given moment, being in a place of choice, you will make the absolute best possible choice.

That’s right, the absolute BEST choice possible. Think about it, knowing that turning left is the absolute correct way to turn, would you turn right? Probably not, at least based on where you know you want to go and how to get there. But what if there was another reason like it’s a really hot summer day and you just saw a wonderful ice creamery to the right? Would you change directions? (I would! Yum!)

The change of direction is a result of additional information and a different course of action based on the new information. And that is exactly what a mistake is. A mistake cannot exist until time, distance and knowledge are obtained. All of the above occur AFTER your choice is made. It is not until we have all three do we assign the label of mistake. Once we have new knowledge or a new perspective, we are then able to make another choice, based on a whole new set of game pieces, as to which of our choices were “right” and which were “mistakes”.

It really all comes down to perception. In fact, Ellie Walsh, author of livingthelawofattraction.com blog, has an amazing perspective, “There are no Mistakes Only Discoveries™”. The way we perceive our world, our choices and our actions is directly related to the vibrations we put out into the world and the vibrations that come back to us.

By opening yourself to your ‘mistakes’ with a different perspective perhaps your perceptions will change as well. Perhaps choices you previously labeled as “mistakes”, under a differing perspective, will blossom into new learning and discoveries as to whom and how you Truly are.

As you embrace past choices with a higher energy you will energize for future and expand and elevate you experiences to new heights.

My perspective: true – there are no mistakes, only the absolute best choice.  So the question I put out there is what True benefit do you get when you trash talk yourself over a “mistake” or what lessons or discoveries can we make when we review the choices we have made in the past?

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