Don’t define yourself by the mistakes you made in the past. You are not your mistakes. We are human beings and bound to make mistakes at some point in our lives, whether in our personal life or career. We all go through the ups and downs of life and it’s never smooth sailing. Even though sometimes you make the wrong choices and mess up, there is no need to bury yourself in shame and guilt.
The best thing to do is to correct your mistakes and vow to do better in future. If you continue to walk through your life without rectifying the mistakes, you carry all that burden of shame and guilt with you. Be gentle and kind to yourself and allow the grace of God to work in and through you. In the same way that God forgives, you should forgive yourself.
Never allow your mistakes to pull you down. Keep your head up. Pick yourself up. Learn from the mistakes you made and become a better person. Forgive yourself and put your failures behind you and move on. If you learn to forgive, you build a solid foundation that can help people around you to trust who you are.
Forgive yourself and stop holding your life back. Today is the day to escape from the self-imposed prison that is keeping you from becoming the person God created you to be. You can never discover the best version of yourself until you let go and learn from your past mistakes.