Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks!

 

WHO wants SETBACKS?  Of course, there are NO takers for SETBACKS.  BUT hey, a SETBACK is neither a stigma nor a plague.  If you ask me, I'll swear I had one too many SETBACKS in the past.  And those SETBACKS floored me, knocked the wind out of me at times.  Lo and behold, I'm still very much a survivor and I'll humbly admit that I'm NOT less motivated OR less encouraged even in the aftermath of those SETBACKS.  Surprised?  Ooops better NOT because it's NOT me alone.  A huge throng will stand up much better than me and proudly declare that they became much more motivated to rise up after those SETBACKS📗📙📘

Let's admit it.  We will be hard pressed to find someone in life WHO has only had an upward trajectory.  In fact, most of us have had times WHEN we've been up, times WHEN we've been down, and times WHEN we WEREN'T quite sure if we were up OR down OR maybe we just felt we were in an uncomfortable situation OR circumstances.  BUT again, life's experiences come in all iterations and different shapes and sizes💚💛💜

And many times, those outlier of an experience may look OR sound awful lot like FAILURE either in our own personal OR professional life.  WHAT it's taught me through the years is that it's NOT the size of the FAILURE that counts BUT instead, it is HOW we did manage and handle the situation.  Do we let that SETBACK defeat us entirely and even thwart our own desire to recover and even succeed ever again?  Some folks might BUT I'll be up front WHY using our personal SETBACKS to our own benefit is the best way to go.  Any other course of action other than this may me catastrophic to say the least because that's turning a bad situation worse💥💥💥

In a poetic way, I remember this one-liner which says:  ALL OF LIFE IS AN EBB AND FLOW.  And I CAN'T disagree more because that's my observation as well of my life and even the lives I witnessed around me.  The trap here is that sometimes, you're going to feel like you're winning and at least some of the time, you're going to feel like you're losing.  BUT can we agree that personal SETBACKS give us that ironic opportunity, giving us time to gather our thoughts, reflect on WHAT we've been doing that's been working and moreso WHAT ISN'T as well.  And from thereon, it behooves that we initiate our own adjustments and course corrections for the remaining journey ahead😌😌😌

Our takeaway:  If there is one observation I witnessed first hand many times in the past, some would kind of 'sit down in the corner sucking his thumb' [no pun intended] and thinking about HOW unfair life is.  Obviously, one would feel defeated OR maybe a little lost and you might even feel like you are losing faith in yourself.  BUT if I have to explicitly declare, the only kind of SETBACK we should NOT and NEVER come back from is one WHICH we choose to let defeat our own self [and that's the stark truth no less.  At the end of the day, WHILE it's easier said than done, this all boils down for us to be reframing SETBACKS as our opportunities.  Again, it's akin to looking at a half-empty glass of water as half-full no less.  Dude, time to turn SETBACKS INTO COMEBACKS!!!