It's Not Failure--It's A Lesson
Sep 08, 2020
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill
My friend Les Brown says "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." We may be worried about what other people will say. And it’s true, we may well be laughed at or criticized by those who lack our courage. But those who never made a mistake or never failed never tried anything new. And there is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. And it’s obvious where that will lead.
It doesn’t matter how long it takes us or how slowly we go,
as long as we don’t give up. As long as we don’t stop.
I came across something called Rules for Being Human that apply to all of us at one time or another:
Rule #1: You will learn lessons.
Rule #2: There are no mistakes--only lessons.
Rule #3: A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
Rule #4: If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder.
Rule #5: You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.
Everyone fails at some time or something. The question is not will we fail or make mistakes, the question is how will we respond to them. The big plus of failure is that every time you fail and learn from it—it grows you up. It makes you better. You grow mentally. You get smarter. You feel better about yourself every time. Failing and making mistakes are not such a big deal. You try bigger things. It turns into an amazing transformative cycle where you begin to believe big about yourself.
John Maxwell says "If we learn to embrace a new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead--and failing forward." That is, if we never give up!
Failing forward,
Jan McDonald
John Maxwell Team
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