“The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama
Failure is inevitable. There is no sense in trying to avoid it. People are afraid of failure, as they should be. Failure means that you are not hitting your target. That if you keep your act up, you will be heading down the wrong path. There is no sense in denying failure. You can not switch up the script last second and set failure to some lower bar. After months of lowering yourself, hell will be a whole lotta hell closer.
Avoiding what you know to be true only stacks future failures. At some point, there is a moment where you have to stand up to the failures of the past. When you stand up, there is a chance to grow. The failure happened for a reason. Do you not wonder why? Growth comes from analyzing failure. Maybe you do not want to know why. If you never try to understand your flaws; then how do you expect to grow? Or would you rather shrink? I can tell you right now that you do not want to shrink.
Do not fear failure. Failure is the tool needed to succeed. It is merely guidance to reach new heights. If failure does not happen to you, then maybe you have not tried pushing your limits far enough. Because if you push yourself hard enough failure will find you. Do that enough times and the roles switch. You will push hard to find failure; so you can grow. To learn. To rise instead of shrink. What could be possibly better than that?
Failure is needed in life. It is the separator for those who really want to grow vs those who accept less. Not to be harsh but that is the case. No-one can teach yourself to push-yourself-more-than-your-self. The grit comes from within. The growth starts when you decide you want to grow. Failure is not as negative as people make it out to be. Those people just do not understand it like others do. Failure is growth. So grow. Stop accepting less. Push through. Fight on.
Thank you for reading!
Carvin,
