Well, I’m into another week of The Happiness Project, a year long project developed by best selling author Gretchen Rubin. This past week’s resolution was to Enjoy the failure.
Enjoy the Failure?! That’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Or is that a paradox? Hmmm, maybe I’ll just enjoy the failure of knowing my rhetorical devices.
Okay, okay, I do understand the meaning behind this week’s resolution. I really like it too. We need to see failure as a learning experience, which it is, rather than as a defeat, which it isn’t. When you fail, you need to remember to consciously choose to fall in the direction of your next goal, treating the fall as a sort of awkward but valuable step along the path. It is hard to enjoy the failure when it’s upon you but one of the keys is to remember that a seemingly hopeless situation may be exactly the disaster you fear, but it may also turn from catastrophe into triumph in ways that you are unable to predict. So, how you deal with that failure, or crisis, has a dramatic impact on how you will succeed from that point forward.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. He took his failures and made them work for him to ultimately reach his goal.
Failure is an attitude, not a destination. Get up and keep crawling, clawing, and sliding forward in the direction of your dreams. Go ahead and fail your way to success! Failure is wonderful!
Really.
It is.
I’m serious.
Ok, so maybe it might possibly be hard to convince myself of this on the 10,000th fail of getting Muffin to eat his veggies. Damn you Peas!
