Excuse me

Excuse me, I’m sorry…some of the hardest words to say. They imply that you may have done something wrong or made a mistake in some way. Why is it so hard to say? Does it show weakness? Does it show that you are human?

When I was a little boy of around 7 or 8 years old, I remember being in a movie theater and squeezing my way between seats to find my seat and bumping into legs. For some reason, I found it difficult to say, excuse me, I’m sorry. I guess it was so hard to acknowledge that maybe I wasn’t careful, or I made a mistake.

At some time during my growing up, I realized that it was okay to be wrong and that saying excuse me did not diminish me. It was one of the most important things I have ever learned, and that was the mistakes that opened the opportunities to create.

Making it okay to be wrong expanded my horizons to do and try things without the shackles of fear of what others would think and to feel free to fail, for without failure there would be no success…think of two of our greatest successes, Edison and Lincoln…both having failed many, many times before great success.