"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." ~Sophia Loren

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones". ~John Peel

It has been my experience that the fear of making a mistake is one of the main ways people keep themselves from living to the fullest, from living outrageously. Yet what is a mistake, really? Who says it is a mistake?

A mistake is something that, we or someone else, judges as wrong, either the wrong action, the wrong course to take or the wrong interpretation or understanding of something. And so what! Many times what we label as a mistake is simply that we tried something and found that it didn't work out the way we hoped. One of my clients said, "It was a mistake to get involved with her in the first place."