Failure (Apr. 23)

At some point in your life you will come across a situation that you must come to the conclusion that you are a failure. No matter how hard you try, or don't try, there will be something that doesn't work out quite the way you expected and you will have to admit that you failed. How one responds to such adversity has a great deal to say about their character. It is so easy to want to crawl into a hole or burry your head in the sand after admiting to failure but that response is only for the weak. Surely you have heard the phrase, "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again." This phrase of course does not mean that you should continually run yourself into a brick wall. If Thomas Eddison has made his light bulb exactly like his first attempt everytime we would not have the light bulb today. Sometimes a failure is a chance to make a completely new start in a completely different direction and sometimes it is a matter of making a small adjustment and continuing on towards the original goal. But if you simply stop in the face of failure and let your fear continue to grip you after a failure, that failure will be the one and only accomplishment that you ever experience in life.