“Refuse to let small, petty people distract you from your Big Purpose.” —Anonymous. If you have been diligent and successful in your purposeful work, in a project, assignment or event–how wonderful, give thanks for your willing and energetic spirit. Then, if someone brings up an error or mistake that was made inadvertently yet important to them, process it gracefully. Most of the time we put our best into our work and a mistake or two may still happen.

Pause and decide, giving ourselves time to choose how we want to respond in this? A non-resistant approach keeps us open to the opportunity for greater self-awareness and learning in any mistakes. Once our head and heart are clear of ill feelings or negativity, we may want to write down the things to do because of knowing about the mistake(s) and the attitudes we choose to maintain while responding and correcting the error if needed. 

If we continue to have lingering feelings of being picked on or not appreciated enough, or this is so petty and will take up my valuable time to correct. Whatever feelings we may have honor them; while we remember we are responsible for our state of being and how we respond to life’s issues.

Even more, we are bigger than any problem or mistake. Life is a process and in each life experience we gain knowledge, valuable insight and greater worth in our chosen work. We increase as a person–no mistake can diminish what we have gained. It is within our control if we allow mistakes and errors to subtract from our self-worth or to add to our self-worth. A mistake in itself has no power. We can consider it a blessing and sail through our response with wisdom, poise and enthusiasm.

Furthermore, there are countless things to give thanks for in our work well done and in any mistakes we iron out, learn from and respond to. We continue all the while giving thanks for the talented, spiritually mature and successful person we are. We are forever needed to apply our best to the things we do especially in the light of any mistakes.