Posts Tagged ‘forgive’

In business, you’re going to make mistakes. Even with the many resources provided by PMI Coaching, your approach to each project and your choices for each decision won’t be perfect. But it’s important to be able to forgive yourself when those mistakes do happen.

• Share Your Mistakes A great way to come to terms with a mistake you may have made is to share it with others. This may be friends or family, but it will likely be most effective if you share it with employees, management, or other coworkers. This will help create an open and honest work environment.
• Don’t Judge Yourself Not to be too cliché, but everyone makes mistakes. You doing something wrong doesn’t automatically make you a bad person or mean you have nothing to contribute.
• One Bad Doesn’t Outweigh the Good Just because you made a mistake, it doesn’t negate all the good and correct things you’ve done in the past. Focus on the positive contributions you have made and will continue to make.
• Take Responsibility for Your Choices Shifting the blame to someone else won’t do anyone any good. Deceiving yourself and others won’t help you, your coworkers, or the business.
• Things Probably Aren’t As Bad As They Seem It’s easy to get really frustrated and worried and distraught about a current crisis. In reality, it’s likely not a crisis, but just a rough patch. Keep that in mind.
• Encourage Yourself to Move On There comes a point where you just have to move on. What’s past is past; move forward when it’s time.
• Worrying Doesn’t Change Anything Things are how they are; complaining and worrying doesn’t help.
• Most Importantly, Learn From Your Mistakes If you need to, write down the decisions you’ve made that you’ve considered “mistakes.” Next to it, write down what you might have done differently. Use it for future reference in case similar situations arise.

Mistakes happen, but if we forgive ourselves and learn from them, then we’re better off than when we started.