Too much have been said about minimizing risk and avoiding mistakes so much so that it has become almost frightening to taking decisions about little issues.

In as much as learning how to minimize risk at any endeavor is imperative, becoming fearful about risks taking altogether will cause you more harm than the latter.

I think there is need to master the art of leveraging on our past mistakes and not only on how to minimize risks. I think this is a superior wisdom.

Anybody can minimize risk just by not taking any, which is very sad, but turning mistakes into milestones requires great understanding, and not everybody have that.

But you see no one is born with great understanding, it is learned by instruction, knowledge and counsel, which is what I am offering you.

It is foolish for one to be caught on the same net twice. Being taken by the same mistakes is never a good thing. For anything mistakes are to be avoided but when they come, which they will, you should learn how to receive instruction from it.

The only way for you to leverage from a bad situation is to learn from it. It is to receive instruction from it not just experience.

Here are some nuggets to consider:


Experience gained from past mistakes may not necessarily stop you from making them again, but getting understanding by receiving instruction from the mistake will always keep you from making same mistakes.



Learn not to focus on the things lost by the mistake but on the things you could still salvage from all of it, however how damaging the mistake may be. However severe the mistake you are making or have made may seem, there is still something there you could save, you just have to consider it deeply.



You are never the real victim of your own mistakes, others are, so be less conscious about yourself in this case and think on how the mistake you have made or are making is affecting others. There is something about caring for others. There is something about putting the needs of others first. It brings wisdom needed for fixing fences.


Now here are some ways on how to...

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