What is failure? Personally, I don’t like the term but it’s a common label that we give certain events and outcomes based on our goals, intentions, plans, expectations and hopes. But what happens when we take the same less-than-desirable result and apply different thinking? Is there a lesson here? How have I grown through this? In terms of my strategy, what worked and what didn’t work? What would I do different next time? What awareness do I have now that I didn’t before? If not achieving a desired outcome is ‘failure’, then I have spent much of my life failing. Fortunately, those less-than-desirable outcomes have also given me insight, awareness, skill, gratitude, knowledge and resilience. Oh, and a few successes. Happy failing.
