Learning From Our Mistakes

"So what if you bomb?  You learn from it.  You pick yourself up, try to figure out what went wrong and then move on, knowing you've given it your best shot." Billy Crystal

Good advice, and what it is reported successful people do.  We have all heard of the hundreds of attempts that Edison made on the filament of the electric light bulb before finding one that worked.  I love what he is quoted to have said -- that he was not discouraged with all the attempts, as each attempt gave him one more material that would not work as filament.  As caregivers we will make mistakes, we will have times when our patience is short, we will become frustrated.  We are, after all, human.  So, let us be gentle with ourselves, learn from what we have done, and move on.