Make Failure Your Friend
I was inspired to write this after reading a recent blog post by HeidyY titled, "Failure is an Option." (I wouldn't do it justice summarizing it, but highly recommended.)
I tell my son, "If you aren't failing, you're not challenging yourself enough." All that success tells you, is that you are working within your limits, but how far within? You'll never know until you push up against them, and go beyond, and... fail.
Success makes you feel better, failure makes you get better. Failure is useful, actionable information. Success is a nice pat on the head and nothing more.
And success is every bit as temporary as failure. If you don't push yourself to get better, to grow, to move forward, failure will find you eventually anyway. Isn't it better to confront failure head on? Meet failure on your terms, wrestle it to the ground, and move on?
Success is the friend who tells you everything will be okay, who always says how great you are, and compliments you at every turn. Failure is the friend who tells you the hard truths you need to hear, even when you don't necessarily want to hear them.
In the end, who is the better friend?
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Felt the same reading that post by Heidy earlier. Thank you so much for sharing.