Motivation Monday: I Will Try Again
Sometimes I think about all the things I “failed” at. And they give me the blahs and the blues and the harumphs. But then I see that those “failures” made me learn and grow and adapt and become….me. But they do not define me. And they will not stop me from brushing myself off and seeing my strengths and seeing where I stumbled and going for it with more force and love and passion and determination. And succeeding. On my own terms.
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April 13th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Thanks for this inspiration! A great way to start the week. Is so true that there's always the good and then the bad side to things we do. There's always a learning curve and some uncertainty. And there is definitely a bit of wonkiness here and there, but I actually really love those parts. They allow me to grow, learn and move on.
Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
April 13th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
When I was going through teacher education they would often call failures a "learning experience". At first I really thought it was a cheezy way of sugar coating things for students, but now I am a 100% believer in the fact that all of our failures (and successes for that matter) are learning experiences if we CHOOSE to make them learning experiences. If we CHOOSE to look at them as nothing but failures then they become failures.
It is all about perspective.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Thanks for your comment, Jacqueline!
I feel false saying there's a Bad Side. A Scary Side, yes. A Bad Side, not so much.
Hmmmmm….I think that alone is telling me something…..
April 14th, 2009 at 4:26 am
It is so cheesy taken at face value, Jeremie!
There was actually a great quote by Moby in the current issue of NY Magazine. They mentioned the study that came out recently about how scientists have succeeding in erasing memories in mice, & then asked which memories he'd like to erase. He responded something like, "I wouldn't want to make the same stupid mistakes twice, so I'd leave those in there. Maybe I should erase the good ones so I can experience those things for the first time again?" While I wouldn't want to have a brain only full of "bad" memories, I really think he's onto something….