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How can you let mistakes go in order to move forward?

Making mistakes is ok, but it's important to learn and grow from them. Reflect on what could have been done better and use the experience to shape yourself for the future so you don't make the same mistake again.
 
Transcript: "How can you let mistakes go in order to move forward first and foremost, want to put it out there, making mistakes, are is okay, you will make mistakes. You're going to continue to make mistakes, but the biggest thing is, you need to learn from them and not let it happen again. Every time I've done something wrong, I've looked back and said, okay, what could I have done better? Could I have worked on time management? Could I have worked on the formatting of it, could I have looked At, you know, proof read it a couple times or could I have reached out for help said, hey can you can you proofread this for me or can you take a look at this? You know, the mistakes you make are going to Define who you are and how you handle those mistakes is going to help develop you. So, as you move forward, you're not going to do those again. You're going to be able to take that experiences and help shape and mold you for the future."
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Donald Soranno

Investigations Subject Matter Expert
How can you let mistakes go in order to move forward first and foremost, want to put it out there, making mistakes, are is okay, you will make mistakes. You're going to continue to make mistakes, but the biggest thing is, you need to learn from them and not let it happen again. Every time I've done something wrong, I've looked back and said, okay, what could I have done better? Could I have worked on time management? Could I have worked on the formatting of it, could I have looked At, you know, proof read it a couple times or could I have reached out for help said, hey can you can you proofread this for me or can you take a look at this? You know, the mistakes you make are going to Define who you are and how you handle those mistakes is going to help develop you. So, as you move forward, you're not going to do those again. You're going to be able to take that experiences and help shape and mold you for the future.
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Patrick Fitzgibbons

Past Law Enforcement Exec, Podcast Host
You know, how can you let mistakes go in order to move forward? I would say the simplest answer is quit living in the past. You know, I tell people all the time, we all have a past, we all make mistakes, but the mistakes are in the past and your mistakes you have made in your life, doesn't Define who you are right now. I think that's the problem with a lot of people and I've made many mistakes personally professionally throughout my life but I try not to let my past. Just dictate my future and I think that's a lot of times. That's the problem with a lot of people is they say oif top. I made this mistake Financial mistake, whatever personal mistake professional mistake. And that's who I am. That is not who you are. Your mistakes, do not dictate who you are right now. The problem with a lot of people is they let the mistakes that they've made overcome their life, they live in the past, the past is the past. Really today. This moment is all you have. That's it. Tomorrow's not guaranteed. So I don't let my mistakes dictate who I am right now. Hopefully, I don't make the same mistakes but I don't let my mistakes dictate where I'm going right now. And who I am the past is in the past, but the hard thing is letting the past go and realizing that you have a bright future because you do, if you want it to and you let it
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Robert Verhelst

Fireman Rob | Speaker | Coach
Yeah, this is a hard question, how do you Love Mistakes? Go in order to move forward, understanding, the mistakes are growth points, and that's, you know, that's a cliche to say. But when you start out on the job, every time that you don't save, somebody who had a cardiac arrest or every time that you didn't stop the fire before it spread, or any time that you go to an extrication and kind of your initial plan didn't work. Work. Those are all times and early on in your career where you think that those mistakes are are the biggest things in there. Everybody's going to judge you in the future for what you did. But as I've gotten later into my career, if I didn't have those mistakes, if I didn't have those those missteps or wrong plans, I would never understand how to dynamically change. When I go into situations now and we're not perfect, we're humans I think a lot of people put us on a pedestal because we chose this profession, but we're not where we're only human. We can only do so much and a lot of the things that we see, we're not meant to understand or explain, and that is one of the hardest things, the unknown for us is very hard to understand and so making sure that you don't make your mistakes fatal to yourself is such a critical thing.
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Chris Fields

First Responder Mental Health Keynote Speaker
How can you let mistakes go. In order to move forward. Gosh, I'm going to have to answer that with a statement. You can't move forward unless you learn to let go of mistakes and it's a hard thing to do. I've made many mistakes along the way and and I'll be honest, there are some days that I still struggle with the mistakes. I made, I, it's one of the hardest things I've learned, and I'll Say it's one of the hardest things to do is forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made, especially when it's heard other people, you know, not physically hurt people. And my case, it was, you know, emotionally hurting people that I loved and family and friends. And so too. To move forward. I have to let go of those mistakes. It's not always easy, it's a process. It's a but it's a lot easier when you, when, you know, you've been forgiven by those that you did hurt or those mistakes. You did make, you know, you've been forgiven them. The only way to move forward is to put them in the past. It's just another part of learning and growing emotionally and spiritually and learning to move forward.
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SuperDave Leath

25-year Police Detective/Speaker/Coach
One of the very best ways to let mistakes go. In order to move, forward is to journal down, write down what the mistake was and then teach the lesson teacher to someone else. Teach the lesson that you learned from the mistake. You'll be much less likely to repeat the mistake as long as you learn from it. And if you didn't learn from it, then guess what? You're probably going to repeat that mistake again.
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Dave Robertson

Deputy Chief Training - Fire
How do you let mistakes go in order to move forward? Well, first of all, that is a behavioral, excuse me, a behavioral change and that takes time and it takes mileage. It takes practice. And ironically, it's going to take some mistakes. It's going to take some love, love failures. But in terms of actually doing it, I believe that not shying away from what your mistake was, is the best way to go about that. I find that if I Think I've made a mistake or I write him sure, I've made a mistake. I delve in deep. Why was that a mistake? What was my thought process? Before making a decision that led to making a mistake? Do I have the process? 22? Maybe not go down that path of making that same mistake again. And if I do make that mistake again, And do I have the emotional quotient the the self-awareness to realize? I'm going to make mistakes. This is life. We are imperfect man or we imperfect. We are successes are are built on on the on a foundation of bricks of mistakes and failures, you're going to make mistakes. So you just need to recognize that you do and then move forward.