When asked during a job interview about their worst weakness, many people still tend to reply that they "struggle" with perfectionism; they think that admitting a tendency to perfectionism is a way of nailing the question.
Being a perfectionist is usually an endless struggle indeed: The struggle for being perfect, for doing everything right, for avoiding mistakes at all cost.
As if avoiding mistakes would be the secret for feeling safe, strong, and invincible.
[Happiness is almost never about the mistakes
we didn't make: it's about how we dealt with them
and what we have learned in the process]
And yet, mistakes are necessary steps in order to grow, to learn, to change, to improve, to explore options, and to discover what works and what doesn't work.
Mistakes per se are rarely the problem, as long as we are willing to learn from them and to do better next time.
Mistakes we may have made in the past could have been a blessing in disguise, in the long run, even if we didn't know that back then.
Today's question is an invitation to celebrate those mistakes and be thankful for them.
Coaching question of the day:
"What's the best mistake you have ever made?"
Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Self-reflection, Making mistakes, Embracing mistakes, Reframing, Resilience, Thankfulness, Growth mindset
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