In a world where perfection is an ideal that most aspire to, failure
is seen as an enemy and as something that opposes success and happiness
with a whole bunch of shame attached to it. The culture of the day is
that failure is to be avoided at all costs. Somehow over the years failure has come to be seen as a happening or event that limits, depletes and devalues a person's worth.
Milton
Erickson wrote that, "Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your
responsibility is to create joy". This got me thinking about how failure
brings with it a responsibility. The privilege of failing allows for the greatest growth, if we choose to learn and
grow. Every negative experience in your life such as financial stress
and relationship failure all become the vehicle by which learning can
occur. If you see failure as a teacher and embrace the lesson within
each experience you will shift to a new place, a different place and
bigger place - you will be enlarged and your potential will be unlocked.
When failure is seen as an enemy, holding patterns of frustration,
anger and fear emerges that shrinks and diminishes the world of those
who will not embrace it.
Embracing the things and events in your life that has caused you the deepest pain and the highest stress as noble teachers and
fine friends is the first step to "creating joy". I have grown stronger
and become wiser from my deepest failures. In those moments of my life I
have learned most about myself. I have become more authentic, more at
peace and more creative. By embracing failure I have allowed it to
process me in a way success never will. In this way failure has come to
work for me and while I dislike the discomfort that accompanies its
presence in my life I know by embracing it as a friend I am setup to
ascend, to shift and be become my true self. So failure becomes a clue
of what we must get through in order to become who we were meant to be - our best and original selves :)
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