Failure!

Such a powerful word. It’s the biggest fear of most people, they never want to fail at anything. To fail means that you tried something that you weren’t sure would succeed and sure enough, it didn’t. So is it better to never fail by never trying anything or is it worth it to try hard things and sometimes fail and sometimes succeed? The answer is obvious to the rational mind, but humans aren’t always rational. Sometimes we have a different problem we’re failure is the fear, we prepare and study and fret and think and plan to do a big thing but never take the first step because we don’t feel the timing is right or that the audience will be receptive. This is just as bad as doing nothing. Take that first step, try, fail, and most importantly, LEARN. There is no harm in failing as long as you learn something. Then try it again with your new learnings. Sometimes you have to look hard to learn from failure and if you think you can’t find anything, you probably learned something from the pure act of trying the thing. Next time will be better.

Why am I bringing this up now? Because I failed to post to this blog yesterday. I made a goal to blog every day and I didn’t do it yesterday. A full 4 days into the year and I failed. How will I conquer the next 361 days if I can’t keep it up for 4? Well I learned. My girlfriend stayed over the night before last and she wasn’t excited about me getting out of bed at 5:30 AM to go do my run. Well my run is where I tend to get my blog ideas and I sit down and write directly after. My whole routine was messed up. I was awake in bed at 5:30, but just laid there. We didn’t get out of bed until after 7, after logging some work hours I didn’t run until after 10:30, and I had stretching and core after and never sat down to write, only to work. I kept putting it off and putting it off and by the time dinner had been made and cleaned up and my youngest wanted to watch a movie with me it was time for bed and I wasn’t ready to write. So what did I learn. I’ll probably not be able to pull off a 5:30 run when my girlfriend stays over, so I’ll have to be more adamant about writing at some point during the day. There you go, I failed, I learned, I’m adjusting. When you fall off your path, snap back to it like an electrified magnet, never stray far from your path.

Go out there and get it!