ROM

ROM ..,. Return on Mistakes

I think we all understand ROI the commonly used business term for measuring your return on investment. It can apply to everything we do and can be looked at in  pure number form or anything else where we invest our assets in time, exercise, studying and many more personal investments.

I am thinking about about another return .. ROM this is the return we receive when we make a mistake. The old cliche , we can only learn from our mistakes is true.  Mistakes can be both embarrassing, expensive and hurtful but no matter what they are there are great lessons to be learned and we all know that mistakes can lead to  both ingenuity and change and most important of all wisdom.

How often do  we really value a bad  experience? Then admit it was a mistake  and move on.

I think of golf  as a sport that is a sum of who makes the least mistakes wins.

Yes winning is both fun and reassures our  fragile egos that we are ok we are meeting our goals we are learning from the past in a effort not to repeat the same mistakes in the future.

My grandfather used to tell me a mistake not corrected gave lead to a permanent error.As our great president Teddy Roosevelt’s wrote  “ It is better to get into the arena and lose then to be a timid soul that knows neither victory or defeat. ROM is important.