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The ABC’s Of A Great Life - ‘F’ Is For Failure
Filed Under (Articles) by admin on 26-05-2006
Failure as part of a great life? Counterintuitive, but true! Think of your very best qualities, your most hard-won strengths and your truly amazing abilities - and remember how many of them are the result of lessons learned and character forged in the hot fire of failure.
Fear of failure is one of the foremost causes of inertia and resistance to change. But failure is nothing to fear! Indeed it should be welcomed with open arms, even sought after with intent so that we may have yet another opportunity to grow through the experience in ways that we could never manage in quiet, docile activities bounded by prescribed circumstances and predetermined outcomes. The best of the best know that although success is sweeter, failure is by far more strengthening and that the latter is, by a far greater margin, more their friend than the former. Success can lull and anesthetize, inuring us to imminent harm or dangerous illusions, whereas failure clarifies the vision greatly, sharpens the senses mightily and - for better or worse - sweeps the cobwebs of stagnation from the corners of our minds where they can trap creativity, improvement and innovation before they have a chance to manifest.
Failure is like a stone. We can bash ourselves up against it again and again, like driftwood on a restless sea, or we can use it to hone our lives, filing away the burrs and nicks that living has put into our souls and coming away with something sharper and
