Looking Ahead

Today I celebrate my 25th birthday! I am very excited about it because it seems to be a signficant number. Now, I am old enough to do anything (even renting a car without the young driver fee)!

At a time like this, it's only natural to think through issues like how I want to be a better person in the future. As I was thining about this today, I recall many times in the past when I made a resolution to be perfect in some area of life. I recall being able to stick to those resolutions for a day or two, before things started to get tough and I realized that it was foolish to expect perfection.

However, the desire for improvement is still there. So here's the goal that I now strive for: When I make mistakes, I will do my best to fix them and learn from them. Wow, that's a huge jump from my previous resolutions! It acknowledges that I will be making mistakes (lots of them actually), and yet also acknowledges that making mistakes is not the end, depending on what I do after the mistakes. This is a resolution that I feel very comfortable embracing because I am not setting myself up to fail--in fact, failure is the first stage of meeting the goal!