The Ladder of Life


Welcome to my Blog. I am an Investment Advisor living and working in Port Alberni, but just as importantly, I am a wife, mother, volunteer, and an active and supportive community member. I believe we can all take charge of our destiny, our future, with the proper mind-set, sense of direction, goals and tenacity to attain what we dream about. Think of your life as a ladder, with the steps numbered one through ten. The top of the steps represents the best possible life we can have, while the bottom is the worst. Where do you feel you personally stand at this point in your life? Where would you like to stand? I believe we all have the power to get to that top step, and I hope that some of the blog posts in the weeks and months to come, will inspire you to get there.

Tuesday 26 February 2013

The Mistakes We Make in Life || Port Alberni, Tofino & Ucluelet Investment Advisor

What was the biggest mistake you ever made?  Everyone makes mistakes.  There’s nothing wrong in admitting we’ve made a mistake.  All human beings make mistakes – from the time we are born, through adult hood and even into our senior years.  George Bernard Shaw said that “a life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” 


When we make a mistake is helps us discover who we are.  We learn about ourselves, our strengths, our weaknesses, our capabilities and our limits.  Our mistakes help us to become more compassionate and more tolerant of others.  Making mistakes teaches us valuable lessons in life.  We can learn a lot from the mistakes we’ve made.  When we realize that it is the lesson learned that is important, we begin to lose our fear of making mistakes.
Making mistakes also teaches us how to forgive.  Every time you make a mistake, you learn to forgive yourself and people around you.  It helps you understand that nobody, including yourself, is perfect.

When we embrace our mistakes and learn from them, we let go of our fears and allow ourselves to really experience life to its fullest.  We are less likely to experience regret because we are not afraid to try something new or different.  Our greatest achievements in life come at the result of making mistakes along the way.  Our mistakes have helped us to grow and evolve and develop as a human being.  We begin to gain confidence and courage every time we make a mistake and bounce back with new ideas and new methods for doing things.   Our mistakes can lead us to happiness because when we persevere and continue to try, we can experience success.

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”  Albert Einstein
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” Mahatma Gandhi

Some of the greatest inventions in the world came about as the result of mistakes. Thomas Edison failed more than ten thousand times before he developed the light bulb.  Just think what our world would be like if he had given up and never invented the light bulb.  Here are some de-lightful photos of this incredible invention, which has become an important part of our daily lives all over the world.

Photos by Stirling Images Photography



















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