Failure leads to Success
How do you deal with failure when its effect can be so devastating to your psyche? I am sure that you are aware of the encompassing feeling of discouragement that seems to drain you of the energy that is necessary for the next challenge. Especially when your attempts are consecutive failures, you have a tendency to protect yourself by excusing your disappointments instead of dealing with their affects on your mental stability.
How you look at your circumstances is important to whether or not you will muster up the strength to go at it again. I cannot over emphasize the value of a failed attempt. That’s right. I said that there is value in failure. How else can you learn to persevere if you never experience the kind of challenges that test your resolve and tenacity to fight until accomplishment has been achieved?
Discouragement is an emotion (negative feeling in motion) that can be altered by the will to win; and failure can easily be overcome with constant attempts. The more you fall short of your goals, the more you learn concerning what not to do.
Thomas Edison tried over 700 times to come up with a bulb that can cause light. If Thomas Edison stopped on the 700th attempt, he would have probably never achieved the notoriety and confidence to accomplish all the other patents he owned over his life span. The light bulb would have eventually been developed by someone else who exerted him or herself to overcome their failed attempts at the bulb’s invention.
The rewards of success are capitulated only to those who persevere over failure and accomplishment. Therefore, do not use failure as a reason to quit, but the motivation to try harder because your failures can only make you smarter and privy to information you would not otherwise have accumulated.
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This is timely. Falure is not someting I like to talk about or even think about. It does affect me and I needed this post to help me fight to win. As I have said in the past thank you for this post.
Failure to me is a lesson to be learned. Not everything I did was a failure, just needed to be tweaked. I have failed in the past and stuck it out. Yes I was depressed and through working on myself and allgning with my spiritual side, I was able to get through the depression and come back. The roads in life are a lot like the streets in El Paso, fixed and torn up again, full of pot holes and nice and smooth at times. However, you just keep moving and ignore the pot holes as long as you have not had too much liquid. There is a stretch of road between El Paso and Las Cruces called the safety corridor. It is smooth and a comfortable ride and very enjoyable to travel. That is like being connected to our Lord. That is when it gets better and you enjoy life. On the other sides, it is when we lose sight of our spiritual side and join the human race with all the negative aspects of life. Life has its pot holes also.
Having attempted things and failing used to get me down “big time”. Now I realize that failure is not fatal nor success final but to keep pushing. I look at it like this, muscle failure in working out is good to build you up. Failure is not the optimum result we want but unless we give up it will make me stronger.
You know yesterday when my alarm clock sounded it was tuned to a country station and the lyrics to this song said “if you’re going through hell keep moving, if your afraid don’t show it keep moving cuz you might make it out before the devil even knows it” It was comical at the time but it really hit home.
Then I remembered Donnie McClurkin “We fall down, but we get up” At times I do feel like a failure, but when I look back on what God has done, where He’s brought me from and what His word says I am encouraged to keep moving forward. Yes, I may and will fail but I will not stop and throw a pity-party but thank God for preparing me for the next level. We must learn to turn our stumbling blocks into stepping stones. And I for one, believes that this forum will help us do just that.
I’ve been feeling like a failure lately. It seems that everything I do goes wrong in my LIFE. I just don’t know anymore, how much more will I have to go through? Even with my attempt to get closer to God has failed.