The Answers are in the Mistakes

When we stop embracing mistakes and either tolerate or avoid them , we stop growing.

We know that it is developmentally appropriate for toddlers to fall down as they learn how to walk. They develop their strength by pulling themselves up and "cruising" along the furniture. Then they eventually let go and take those first couple of steps in their quest to venture out further.

Falling is how they learn what does not work, so that they can figure out what does work. Once that happens, they are off to explore their new found independence and nothing is the same!

No one expects a child to take off walking. We know that it is part of the process; to fall and learn how to get back up and keep going.

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." JK Rowling

I know that failure is part of the process to build my business, but I am still gun shy.

Why go through the pain if I can do more research and figure out the "right" path?

There are plenty of resources to help me figure out how to build my business- my coaching school, fellow coaches and entrepreneurs, Google, etc.

But the belief that there is a "right" path was holding me back.

Finding the perfect solution was keeping me in indecision. Doing more research is a very rational reason for staying stuck.

This is exactly the type of big corporate conditioning that I need to actively unlearn.

I can strategize with the best of them, but this is new territory. I am not going to develop my balance and start learning until I start doing.

A thought that will better serve me is that it will be fun to figure out what works for Caroline Holke Coaching.

Additional thoughts that are fueling this adventure are:

• I will figure out the how through test and learn.

• Mistakes mean that I am trying.

• Perfect is not the goal.

• Learning why something did not work is the richest data available to me. It is more valuable than the most world renown expert advice because it is customized to my business.

What would be different for you if you completely embraced the idea that the answers are in the mistakes?