Making Mistakes In Life You Don’t Need to Make (and How to Fix Them if You Do)

One of the benefits of watching the years go past in your life is the ability to look back and see where you screwed up.

If you look back often enough, with a discerning eye and an open heart, you can often self-correct along the way.

Or at the very least, you can learn from your screw-ups and become a bit wiser and stronger in other areas of your life.

You probably know from your own life experiences that mistakes are painful but very useful ways of learning about yourself.

However, there are some life mistakes, that if avoided in the first place, will save you a whole load of heartache and misdirection.

These are the mistakes that stem from a lack of knowledge, infrequent self-reflection, or little solid emotional guidance as you grow and enter adulthood.

These are the mistakes that can stick with you for a lifetime if someone or something doesn't gently (or often abruptly) help you self-correct.

Although I'm sharing these mistakes with you, and some ideas on how to fix them, I haven't been immune from them.

In fact, I've made every single one of these mistakes, and I can proudly claim that now in mid-life I am beginning to make a dent in a few of them!

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