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September
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Today's
quotation:
You must accept that
you might fail;
then,
if you do your best and still don’t win,
at least
you can be satisfied that you’ve tried.
If you don’t
accept failure as a possibility, you
don’t
set high goals, you
don’t branch out,
you
don’t try— you don’t take
the risk.
Rosalynn Carter
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Today's
Meditation:
Nothing
in this world is a given. Even though there are many
things that we can predict with a high degree of accuracy,
there are many more things that we'll be wrong
about. Every year thousands of small businesses
start and fail within a short amount of time.
Athletes aren't chosen in drafts or are cut from teams
because they're not quite good enough. Relationships
end, banks foreclose on houses, movies and records and
books are released just to do horrible business.
We
all have the potential to fail, and there's nothing wrong
with that. But when we don't recognize the
possibility of failure and neglect to plan for that
potential, we may just leave ourselves hanging out in the
wind without any sort of protection at all. If we
don't acknowledge the fact that we may fail, we may set
our sights a bit lower than we otherwise would, or we may
not work as hard to make something work because we assume
success and therefore don't feel the need to do the necessary work
to succeed.
Life
isn't about winning-- it's about trying and learning from
the effort. Many people win medals in the Olympic
games, but many more go home without gold, silver, or
bronze. But their goals have brought them to the
possibility of at least competing in the Olympic Games,
putting them among the very elite athletes in the
world. When they get there and they try their best,
well, isn't that enough? They've taken many risks to
get where they are, always knowing in the back of their
minds that they might not get there. They've done
their best, win or lose, and that's what matters.
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Questions to
consider:
What kinds of things might you fail at. Does the
possibility keep you from trying?
How do other people usually react when someone fails at
something they've tried? Do people tend to be supportive and understanding, or
mocking and cruel?
What was the last risk that you took? |
For further
thought:
Failure is a reality; we all fail at times and
it’s painful when we do. But it’s better to fail while striving for something
wonderful,
challenging, adventurous and uncertain than to say, “I
don’t want
to try, because I may not succeed completely.”
Jimmy Carter |
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