Failure...it's a word I hear a lot in the fitness industry, in my small town and a word I read frequently in media, but quite frankly I don't believe in the word failure!
I googled failure which led me to fail and its definition is "to end without success" or "to not do." Those definitions right there prove that none of us have failed...because we are still living, we are still here! To fail in business, in losing weight, in anything you have to totally give up living and clearly none of us have done that! You are breathing, moving and living so you have not failed!! Too often we try to put a mark on what failure is: we didn't lose 30 pounds, we didn't make a million dollars this year, our marriage ended in divorce, we didn't get the job we wanted, our child didn't live up to our expectations etc. etc. but none of those things equal failure. Those things simply mean your life is rerouting itself. Those bumps in the road mean your life has something to teach you. Failure is just like beauty and just like the word success-the meanings are in the eye of the beholder! So if you allow yourself to think you've failed then you have, but me.....I know you haven't failed, I know you/we are simply on our journeys, we are living our destinies! “You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the number of times you get back up.” –Andrew Sorkin Life will always have obstacles, life will always provide us with hardships, with choices, with moments of sorrow, BUT it will also always give us the opportunity to love, to experience joy, to learn, to grow and to change. So if you keep taking chances and keep making great choices then you aren't failing, you're simply learning. Continue to grow, continue to learn, continue to love and most of all continue to LIVE! If you are living you cannot be failing! I leave you with this quote: Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what make life meaningful.
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