You fall down...you get up...you try again...
"If at first, you don't succeed, try try again..."
These are lessons we learned in childhood. We were taught that failure shouldn't be a barrier to our quest for success. It was nothing more than a stepping stone on the way to where we wanted to go.
But somewhere along the line, the rules changed. Somebody flipped the script.
It's hard to tell when it happened, but one day it was no longer okay to fail.
We were taught that all hope of success was riding on every move we made as if we were walking a tightrope over the Grand Canyon.
One false move, one little slip, and it was game over. All was lost and we'd be branded forever as losers with no chance for redemption.
Reminds me of something I heard at a conference several years ago from a person who suffered from a poor self-image.
She said she used to feel like she walked around with a neon sign attached to her back that listed every wrong thing she'd ever done in her life for all to see.
She felt like many of us do: helpless, powerless, with no possibility of turning our lives around...
But is that really true? I'm not sure it is.
Maybe it's time we dusted off those old lessons and took a closer look...
Maybe it's possible that we don't have to identify ourselves based on the perceptions of people who all to easily misjudge us...
Maybe, just maybe, Les Brown was right when he said: "Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
And maybe it's possible we've been looking at failure the wrong way all these years.
In Part 2 we'll take a closer look at the lesson we forgot, but here's a hint:
That's all for now, gotta run.
Until next time remember...
Keep it simple...See ya!
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