Get Up!

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

I know only one thing after failing so many times at important life pursuits, and that one thing is that colossal failure is a gift that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime.

Do you know why?

1. Failure helps to reduce rejection sensitivity.

2. Failure helps you to redefine your relationship with shame to understand it as something that is important and useful.

3. Failure builds courage. When you’re going through the things you feared, you realize how powerless those scary situations had been all along.

4. Failure cracks open a new dimension to humanness. There are lessons about being human that cannot be learned in comfort.

5. Failure teaches us empathy and compassion for other people. Take it or leave it, we are the kindest to other people when we are going through something ourselves. We lose our airs of invincibility and become more aware of other people’s suffering.

6. Failure heightens self awareness and strengthens your relationship with yourself.

7. Failure replaces lousy fragility with healthy vulnerability.

Remember, it is only failure if lay down where you fell till your bones rut. But if you get up and try again? You’ll be the first person to be surprised at your results!