Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

In Becky McCray’s blog What I learned from failure over at Small Biz Survival, she speak of failures in terms of positive opportunities. Do you?

I like to think that things that went wrong in the past move more to the edges of that my mental stage and that a vision for the future occupies the spotlight at the center.

For instance, I used to fight against disorganization daily in my early years and so things that could have led this work forward simply filled increasingly incompleted files. My weak logical mathematical intelligence – which holds any talent for organization - rarely helped me out. Mark Bittner thought his love for music would take him forward, but failure after failure led him to a more successful dream from within a flock of wild parrots he fed in San Francisco.

Years later, I am highly organized and the MITA International Brain Based Renewal Center I operate wears this new order in terms of growth, and constant contracts. In fact it’s time to add more workers here, when we can catch our breath.

Back though to my point about positioning failures and future dreams on a stage that helps you to draw from both. I simply stated keeping daily targets – where I created bullets for what was to be done and added times to do each. The past mistakes reminded me to keep goals constant until the vision of growth and sustainability found deeper roots in each day’s direction. Who knew back then that multi-tasking bottle-necks a brain?

Every so often still though,  I glance back to remember weeks where problems piled in papers filled ever corner of my desk. Unfinished work kept me from cool adventures near brain based renewal's center.

That glance behind me now reminds me where I stalled before I hooked my wagon to another star of opportunity.  Two decades later and I still move forward toward that fresher vision - the one that launched where MITA stands today.

Where do you position past failures in relation to a reachable target for your talent?