Hi Friend,

Let’s talk about mistakes.

We’ve all made thousands of them over the course of our lives. Some small and forgettable; others more consequential. And what I’ve realized in my old age (lol) is that so much of it comes down to perspective.

When I call something a mistake, there’s a heaviness to it. A sense of me having done something wrong. But when I reframe it as a learning, the energy of the experience shifts. It then becomes data and a moment that showed me something that I couldn’t see before.

It’s never really about what I did or didn’t do, it’s about what I do after. Do I take the experience and let it refine and evolve me? Or do I stay stuck, replaying it on a loop, wishing I had known then what I know now? Hey, I’m human so sometimes it’s the latter but I try my best to be intentional and conscious of looking at experiences in life as opportunities to get and be better. We have so many chances in life to become the 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 versions of ourselves!

Growth doesn’t usually come from getting things right the first time. It comes from intentional choices that you make when things didn’t go as planned.

Here’s to meeting life’s moments with a little more compassion and a little less self-criticism.

Rachel

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