The benefits of failure
The benefits of failure
The benefits of failure
May 28, 2018 - 4 min read
There is a saying that says the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people just don’t quit.
I like that saying. I like knowing that the only thing that comes between me and my success is not quitting. I can do that. Anyone can do that. It might not be easy, but it IS simple.
I am no stranger to failure. I don’t think anybody is. I think we have all held back from taking on big, “scary” projects because of the possible and scary outcome of failure.
“What if it doesn’t work?”
“What if I’m made fun of?”
“What if I fail, again?”
Any meaningful task brings the scary possibility of failure.
When we have the grace, the connection to something more than us, we can see the bigger picture. We can see that there is really no such thing as failure when you know there is more to come! Fear of failure comes from thinking small, and getting trapped in a moment.
“What if it doesn’t work?”
“What if I’m made fun of?”
“What if I fail, again?”
Any meaningful task brings the scary possibility of failure.
When we have the grace, the connection to something more than us, we can see the bigger picture. We can see that there is really no such thing as failure when you know there is more to come! Fear of failure comes from thinking small, and getting trapped in a moment.
Failure is temporary, but your path and purpose, that lasts a lifetime!
Let’s say, you want to become a successful artist, but your exhibition that you put the past 6 months’ work into did not sell out like how you had hoped. Viewing it in short term, could be seen as a heartbreaking failure.
“All that work for nothing! Is what you might think and say to yourself”.
However, if you have the ability to dig deep down and realise, that you weren’t really aiming for a sell out show anyway... that was secondary. Perhaps you were creating that show to express yourself, to find a new way to share your values with the world. And hey - you did just that! And now you can use the feedback from this show to start a new project. Make the necessary tweaks.. We are all creating new and dynamic things that haven’t been done before, in the special way that only you can do it.
So of course, there might be some opportunities made along the way!
However, if you have the ability to dig deep down and realise, that you weren’t really aiming for a sell out show anyway... that was secondary. Perhaps you were creating that show to express yourself, to find a new way to share your values with the world. And hey - you did just that! And now you can use the feedback from this show to start a new project. Make the necessary tweaks.. We are all creating new and dynamic things that haven’t been done before, in the special way that only you can do it.
So of course, there might be some opportunities made along the way!
When we make peace with failure, we allow faith to step in. Faith that we can only see a small piece of the puzzle. That we have a big, big, BIG message to share with the world, and maybe we don’t know every step of the way to get it out there. But, that’s part of the challenge.
Life takes it’s time to direct our path.
We can only take small, doable steps forward not knowing all of the answers. And maybe one of those steps doesn’t work out the way we had planned.
When these disappointments happen, nothing is more powerful than realizing - this is the way we are shown our path! This is where the magic of our lives unfold, as we hold on to our big picture vision, and realize, life is so much bigger and longer than this one moment, day, or week of defeat.
Failure is just life’s feedback system telling me, I need to take a stab at this thing in a different way. With a different point of view, or perhaps a different modality. We can choose to have “faith above me, grace below me, light within me, peace around me”
And this choice, is the most powerful of all. Make that choice today, commit to it and get back to work.
Your life awaits you, and you have so much more to share.
I invite you to share with us a lesson that you learned from failure in the comment below.
Failure is just life’s feedback system telling me, I need to take a stab at this thing in a different way. With a different point of view, or perhaps a different modality. We can choose to have “faith above me, grace below me, light within me, peace around me”
And this choice, is the most powerful of all. Make that choice today, commit to it and get back to work.
Your life awaits you, and you have so much more to share.
I invite you to share with us a lesson that you learned from failure in the comment below.
Failure is just life’s feedback system telling me, I need to take a stab at this thing in a different way. With a different point of view, or perhaps a different modality. We can choose to have “faith above me, grace below me, light within me, peace around me”
And this choice is the most powerful of all. Make that choice today, commit to it and get back to work.
Your life awaits you, and you have so much more to share.
I invite you to share with us a lesson that you learned from failure in the comment below. :)
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