Failure is Your Friend
You must fail.
It’s very important for you, for me, for everyone, to fail at something. Whether it’s at school, at work, in business.
This is because you learn more in failure than you do in success.
Failure separates the weak from the strong; the ones who give up easily from the ones who are determined, who dig deep and keep at it.
Failure builds character. You learn incredibly important survival traits in failure, like commitment, perseverance, resilience, resourcefulness and many more.
I’ve known this for a while; however, it’s one thing to know it on an intellectual level and quite another to experience it. I can definitely say that I’ve experienced it a lot lately; several times😊.
Failure gives you the opportunity to take a step back and do an autopsy on your idea, your business, your project; to go over and understand the what, where and why of the failure.
To ask yourself what went wrong, how (if) you could have done things differently and what you can do to make things better – because the only person you have control over, is you.
I’ve had to do autopsies on a few projects I put together. Although they haven't failed, they've been quite (very) slow in coming to fruition; which to some (and my previous self) may feel like failure.
I would never have anticipated that it would have taken this long; however, the delay has given me time to take a step back and see where I could have done things differently to avoid being affected by the inactivity of key players.
Now I know there's a quicker way and I know where the less lucrative 'low hanging fruits' are that can be worked on whilst waiting for the 'bigger' projects to be processed.
My everything has been and is being tested. I’m currently having to dig deep on my reservoirs of commitment, perseverance, resilience, resourcefulness and many more; and you know what? It’s not that bad, not a piece of cake but it's not impossible and I'm still here - fabulous as ever 😉.
Now if only I felt the same way about the power cuts……