Dealing with Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  ~Henry Ford

As imperfect people we are going to have to deal with failure throughout life, but how we come back from failure is what will ultimately define us. First, lets remember that failure is not always a bad thing. People tend to link failure with weakness, stupidity, and dumbness. I completely disagree with that. I believe that if you fail at something it doesn't mean you are failure, it just means you have yet to succeed at what you are trying to do. You could just be a few steps away from accomplishing your goal. Sometimes you need to fail once to know how to do it right the next time you attempt it. Changing the perception of failure makes a difference in how you recover from it. Take the great Michael Jordan for example. Michael is known as perhaps the greatest basketball of all time, a phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of grace, speed, power, and a fierce competitive nature. As a sophomore in high school  Jordan tried out for the varsity basketball team and was told he was too short to make the team and was cut. Instead of sulking Jordan took this setback as motivation and he starred for the Junior Varsity team. The following summer after training hard and growing four inches Jordan made the Varsity team at his high school and the rest is history. There are so many stories similar to this throughout history where someone famous had to fail sometimes numerous times before they eventually succeeded. Thomas Edison is best known for inventing the light bulb. But you would probably be shocked to know that he tried over 9,000 experiments before he created the first successful light bulb.

Here at Dajs Daily we feel it's important to promote growth, and sometimes without failure there is no growth.  As we explained there are so many people that have made it big that had to fail in order to understand what they needed to do to be successful.  It's always important to know that everything you do will not work perfectly and we have to keep in mind that failure doesn't mean that you still can't achieve your goals.  Most of the time when we fail we are creating a new experience and strengthening our minds on how to achieve our goals in different ways, it may be hard to rebound from failing but the key is to know that at some point you will reach your goal.  As parents we have to let our children know that it's OK to fail sometimes and that the more you fail the more you will succeed in the future.  We don't want to seem like we are promoting failure, we mostly want to promote growth so that people understand that you can always be better than you were the day before whether you have achieved you goal or not.