Posts Tagged ‘mistake’

The Use and Abuse of Regret

Two weeks ago, I asked Lifehack.org readers what advice you’d offer to your younger self, knowing what you know today. The responses were a little overwhelming — powerful, powerful stuff. More and better responses than I had hoped for, to be honest.

I’m not sure what advice I’d offer my younger self. I’ve messed up a lot, taken a lot of wrong turns, but even the wrong… » Continue

January 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: development, learning, mistake, past, regret | 11 comments»

Do You Make This Mistake as a Professional?

Broken promises are one of the biggest mistakes that one can make in their career. Broken promises are a problem because:

Broken promises diminish the value of your word. People want to count on you when you’ll say you do something. If you regularly drop the ball people will rely on you less. Your reputation becomes one of a partial contributor and you will not be offered opportunities.
Broken promises decrease

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December 20 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: Management, mistake, promise, work | 8 comments»

You are what you choose

Always making fully conscious choices is the key to a positive lifeLiving your life consciously isn’t a once-and-for-all action. It’s a way of being that will make everything you do more vibrant, more alive, and more fun.

Destiny is made of choices. Most of what will happen to you depends on the choices you make and their consequences in the future. Careful, conscious choices produce positive outcomes; hurried, poor choices… » Continue

August 13 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: choice, decision-making, mistake, option | 8 comments»

Things I wish I’d known when I was younger

Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that I know now that would have been extremely useful to me earlier in my life; things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years—and most of those that I inflicted on others too.

I don’t buy the romantic notion that… » Continue

July 23 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: experience, Lifehack, Lifestyle, mistake, work | 112 comments»

Why you cannot learn much from past success

When you do something for the first time and it works, you’ve learned something useful. When you do it again, and it works again, you haven’t learned anything. All you have done is to confirm what you already knew. When you do it for the 20th time, and it still works, you’ve probably become complacent.

What happens if you do it again (now it’s the 21st time) and it doesn’t work?… » Continue

February 26 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, learning, mistake, motivation | 1 comment»

Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?

Conversation is an art, if you want to do it right. It is a big topic to discuss about, and has a lot of areas for improvements as it will affect your personal and professional life. This article will help. Henrik sends me his article on improving your conversation skill by introducing some common mistakes and solutions on it:

Not listening
Asking too many questions
Tightening up
Poor delivery
Hogging the spot-light
Having to be right
Talking

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November 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, conversation, mistake | 2 comments»

Seven Career Killers

Erin Burt describes 7 less-obvious mistakes that can kill your career:

Procrastinating.
Having a sense of entitlement.
Settling into your job description.
Avoiding office politics.
Not being a team player.
Not dressing the part.
Failing to network.

Erin focuses this article onto young workers - as many of those mistakes are coming from inexperience. In particular, failing to network. Many people (included me in the past) think networking and engaging new contacts are only critical for getting a… » Continue

August 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: career, mistake, work | 2 comments»

Would I Lie To You?

Lying your way out of trouble often causes far greater harm. Integrity is worth more than you may think. » Continue

February 20 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: ethics, honesty, integrity, mistake, personal, problem, reputation, trust | no comments»

A positive side of mistakes

Curt Rosengren gives out a good advice on mistake. One obstacle that he identified si that many people fear of making a mistake. He recommends everyone should take a positive emotion to mistake, as it can be a wake-up call and identify what is actually happened. It can also act as a live lesson on the issue you are handling:

… Next time you make a mistake, don’t beat yourself… » Continue

January 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: learning, mistake | no comments»

8 E-mail Mistakes that Make You Look Bad

No matter if you are in business or personal life, you need to deal with emails. Some people underestimate the importance of carefully dealing anything related with email. Making mistake in your email will definitely make you look bad and even kill off your credibility. Kim Komando has written an article on 8 email mistakes that you shouldn’t make:

Failing to follow e-mail etiquette.
Thinking you are anonymous.
Sending e-mail to the wrong

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November 13 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: business, Communication, email, mistake | 11 comments»

From Mistake to Marvel

November is the month we celebrate thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation. Lately, in my neck of the late autumn woods, we’ve been talking story about mistakes, and how we should appreciate them.

What? Be thankful for mistakes?

Absolutely. Let’s really think about this with an open mind.

Mistakes are part of the learning process. If you aren’t making mistakes, you probably aren’t stretching enough, learning enough, or embracing the catalytic converter action… » Continue

November 10 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: failure, learning, mistake | 2 comments»