excuse when we fail

in my opinion, we better always be honest, we don't have to lie, maybe with that we will make ourselves better

For me, there are no perfect individuals here on Earth. It would be better to say, "Practice is the best teacher."

I usually beat myself up over mistakes but lately I am learning to "shake it off" and say, "I just learned that this way does not work, let's try another and another until it does work." I'm in my 60s by the way, so it took me a long time to get to that point.

When I was in school I failed at sewing. I was in middle school and we had to make a dress. I did a horrible job and the teacher was being generous when she gave me just above a failing grade. My Mom about had a fit as she was an avid sewer who made almost all my clothes. I figured that I would never be able to sew and make my clothing, that I had no skills at sewing and that trying again would just make things worse. For some reason I got another couple yards of fabric and tried again. I didn't allow my Mom to watch or help me with the second attempt at sewing. It took better than 10 days to make the dress, and when I finished it was beautiful! That was almost 60 years ago and now I design and make not only my own clothes but also, and most important, I design and make teddy bears for sale. I didn't tell myself that trying again would make things worse, I didn't tell myself that I was bad at it and would NEVER succeed at sewing. I didn't make up excuses either. I just tried again. Now sewing is fun for me and is also a wonderful for of therapy for me. It's therapy because I focus totally on working on the project that I have in my hands at the time. I can pick up the little pieces of fabric (fake fur) and carefully stitch the pieces together. I have worked myself through some tough times by sewing my way through them...and also saved a lot of money by making my own clothes too. Don't lie to yourself. It could just be something as simple as you're having a bad day when you're doing that certain task that you get the bad score in. Such as cooking. I also got a bad score in cooking and I love to cook. I made my families meals from the time I was 8 years old! By the time I was 12 I was also baking their bread and gourmet cooking for them too. I remember getting the bad score in cooking and telling the teacher that she was full of prunes because of the fact that I could cook a meal for 15 people and have them raving over the meal that they just ate. I went into the classroom one lunch hour and fixed her a meal. She tentatively sampled it then chowed down on it like she hadn't eaten in two weeks. She had seconds and also called the other home economics teacher in for her to taste my work. She couldn't wait for the dessert I fixed for her...it was a chocolate walnut cake with a rum cream drizzle and whipped cream on top. Fortunately I had made enough walnut cake to feed two people. As the teachers both dug into the cake and the whipped cream and stuffed themselves like the little pigs they were that day. Needless to say I passed the Home Economics class with an "A" throughout middle school...as long as I made the teachers lunch at least 4 times through the rest of the years. Don't figure that you "can't" do something because you've failed. You need to encourage yourself that your failure is just a little bump in the road and you can go forward if you encourage yourself and keep telling yourself that you can do whatever it is that stopped you from succeeding the first time. Remember that it isn't always the "best" that counts, it's the fact that you keep trying until you're able to do the task and then work until you learn how to do it well. Look at the people who have become famous or successful in their professions. It didn't happen the first time, it happened because they kept trying and telling themselves that they could do the task no matter how often they didn't quite succeed. It might be hard, but you have friends on the Lot that are here to help encourage you and let you know that you can do whatever you choose to do. Keep hanging in there sweetheart and keep on trying!

Practice and confidence makes a man perfect. Be OPTIMIST and think positively.

we dont need to be stressed