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Today's
Meditation:
"Frequent
failures" seems to be such a frightening concept!
How many of us want to be known as having failed frequently
at the things we try to do? How positive is the idea
of trying something many times but never accomplishing it,
or accomplishing it only after failing many times to do so?
When
all is said and done, though, our greatest learning takes
place through our failures. When we do something that
we already know how to do, something at which we've already
succeeded, then no learning takes place-- we're simply
repeating past actions to achieve the same or similar
results. Failure, though, is an important part of the
learning process, a result that tells us how something
shouldn't or can't be done. Each one of our failures
is an important step towards success, and the more we fail
along the way, the more learning goes into our final,
successful achievement.
We've
missed many things in the past. We've missed clues,
opportunities, signs, chances, lessons, and many other
elements of life. When we learn from a failure, we
often can see clearly what we missed or what we didn't
do. "This relationship didn't work out because I
never understood her need for reinforcement."
"This experiment failed because I didn't see the need
for this element." "This job didn't work out
because I didn't trust my instinct that told me not to take
it, even though I was desperate for work." If
from our failures we can take the lessons that they have to
give us, then our failures are truly our greatest successes,
and we have to love them more than we love our successes.
Our
greatest successes are the result of numerous failures and
the great learning that comes from them. But the
beauty of failure can't be seen unless we acknowledge that
it's possible for failure to be beautiful, for failure to be
important.
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