Failure = Greatness

(my response from a discussion on breathemovement.org)

We live in a culture that likes to discourage. We like to put people down or test people and see if they succeed or fail. But failing is not totally a bad thing.

Failing either helps us see that maybe this task, job, or idea is not for us...

Or

Failing can help us become better.

Failure, conflict, and stress can only do two things: build us stronger or tear us down.

It is our choice which road we go down.

Do we can let failure make us put our 'tail' in between our legs and go home and pout?

Or

In the face of failure do we roll up our sleeves and work out the problems and find ways to turn the failure into success?

One idea that has changed my thinking and life is that no one is going to hand success to me. People will help in the process, but I am the one that has to take the first step and bare the load if I want to succeed. If failure comes, I must look at and see what I should have done better and make the change.

Going to the video on the World Record Trampoline jumper, he probably has the scares and burses to show on the times when his stunt did not go the way that he wanted it to go.

In order to be great, you will have scares and burse.

So…

May you take the bumps and burses
May you see that that bumps and burses of failure only make you stronger
May you not turn around and go home when you fail but...
May you push forward and see the possibility of become GREAT!!