What we do is get up. We step back. We reengage. We move forward. The forward motion is a pace. It may not be the pace we had. It may not be a pace we are content with. It may not be a pace that others view as favorable. But it is a pace.

 A mistake in its most simplistic form is faulty judgement. You acted based on information that was inaccurate. You jumped to a conclusion. You messed up. The challenge with the mistakes we make is that we don’t like to admit them.

Business author, Dale Dauten, observes, “Experiments never fail.” Experiments never fail because you are just as interested in what doesn’t work as what does. “Whatever you find out,” says author Steve Chandler, “helps you grow. There is no failure in that.”