Containing FAILURES in Life

Containing FAILURES in Life

News flashes.  Breaking news.  There's more news about FAILUREs than any other stuff. Yet, many of us talk about FAILUREs in the past tense, like it's somehow okay to discuss once we have transcended, made meaning, and are back on the come up.  BUT let's face it.  WHEN you get hit with a FAILURE in life, it can be difficult to feel motivated and identify the meaningful messages we are intended to learn, probably mostly because we are too angry, exasperated OR call it 'broken hearted' to look for them.  Feeling like a FAILURE in life even seems to be energy-consuming and it takes many forms and shapes.So, it seems, the only guarantee in life is that we will, in fact, FAIL.  We will do so separately and when FAILUREs compound, it can feel like tje Earth is crumbling down.  Containing FAILURES in Life📗📙📘

I'll volunteer myself as to how my past FAILUREs did look like to me.  Imagine when either you're financially strapped, given the pink slip by HR, missing a promotion, getting ghosted, [and I'm guilty of this], breaking diet, going through separation [coupled with anxiety], standing by WHEN you wanted to stand up, failing to complete a major goal OR just a daily task list OR doing everything right BUT still losing WHERE it seems to count OR something you poured time into coming out all wrong, just one too many shortfalls💦💦💦

BUT rather than sulk in the corner, let us peruse the merits of FAILURES because in the first place, there is merit in trying.  If you have FAILED, the underlying truth is that you must have tried to be in that position.  The fear of FAILURE runs so deep that many people choose NOT to try just to avoid the possibility of FAILING.  And if you have found yourself feeling like a FAILURE, then it means you summoned the courage to do something hard.  And do remember that same courage hasn't disappeared just because it DIDN'T work out the way you hoped.  Instead, celebrate your willingness to try and note that this is the same spirit that will fuel you as you move forward and try again OR try something new💧💧💧

Oh, NOT to forget, FAILURE humbles US if we DON'T give it too much power.  If we give our FAILURES too much credit, we tend to memorialize them as predictors of future inevitable FAILURES.  It's AS IF by FAILING at something in life, you can never succeed in that area again.  In the end, we tend to catastrophize our FAILURE, then widen its scope and turn a single moment in time into a self-fulfilling prophecy we tend to replay😀😀😀

Our takeaway:  At the end of the day, WHAT'S done is done.  Reliving our FAILURE moment serves nobody, seriously.  "WOULD'ves", "COULD'ves", and "SHOULD'ves" rush through our minds as we consider all of the ways things could have turned out differently, if only.  BUT the truth is that the time we spend in this place of unnecessary replay could be better spent working to take full ownership of the parts we had control over that led to the FAILURE.  This is all about CONTAINING FAILURES IN LIFE 💥💥💥