Turning Things Around

 Turning Things Around

📌To most of us, turning things around seems a longshot.  Up front, we get daunted by the odds when all the cards are stacked against us.  Apathy. Indifference. Loss of confidence.  And worst, mistrust and distrust.  All these are ingredients for that recipe for you to fail even before you lifted a finger to go for it.  But the worst part is that loss of confidence.  That could be your self-confidence or that could be the confidence of people around you, be it within your family or your work environment.  But even then, it's never the last daylight you will see.  There will always be that slimmest chance for you to turn around.

Take trekking to Mount Everest, a feat that only a drop in the bucket [of our population] has managed to achieve.  Just being advised where you will start that trek is already daunting.  When mountaineers are advised to take that short flight to Lukla and from there, you have to trek for ten days to reach Base Camp.  And that's only the very point when you can commence your trek up there.  Based on statistics, there has been always a significant drop in the number of mountaineers once they get to know that, that's only Step 1 going up Mount Everest.  Yet, the bravest of the bravest did reach the peak of the peak but they had to hurdle a long ordeal with regard the extreme altitude sickness.  As per first hand accounts by mountaineers, once you reach 8,000 feet at Mount Everest, that's where the known 'DEATH ZONE' starts because from that point onwards, the lack of oxygen can disorient even the toughest of the toughest climbers.  And the mortality rate is really appalling to hear.

But if this your mantra, i.e. Failure is NOT the opposite of success but instead it is part of success, then who else will waiver and wither?

You don't abandon ship once you are at the high seas.  Neither will you turn around once you reach the Base Camp of Mount Everest.

In our lives, that matters most.  Once you get thrusted in a situation which becomes a make or break, why will you raise the white flag?  Especially if there is a very thin razor line between making it or failing it?

But who wants to fail anyway?  But again, this is easier said than that because to shut off your eyes from that FAILURE path, at the very least, you need to take a 90-degree turn.  By turning 90 degrees, there will be lots of downsides.  You gotta sacrifice some things.  You gotta lay all your remaining cards on the table.  You gotta tell yourself that this is the final crossroad that can tilt things either towards that brink of failure or that dawn to success.  Which path you need to take, YOU gotta summon everything in you to come up with that game-changing decision which can make or unmake you.

Besides your most basic needs when you are in 'survival mode', what else do you need?  Nothing much except that eight-letter word spelt P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E.  Drop that 'im' prefix, just dump it out.  Instead, complement it with another eight-letter word spelt 'P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E'.  

Staying firmly POSITIVE with everything that's POSSIBLE, trust me, you are in that right path to turn things around.  It won't happen overnight because you will get bruised, scarred, wounded, battered probably both psychologically and even physically but once you wiggle out of that conundrum, that will be the sweetest TURN AROUND that will be permanently etched in your life.

At this point, what else do we need?  It is this very inspirational quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, that famously successful French military leader who eventually became an emperor.  To quote Napoleon: 'You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success'.  

Fast forward to today.  Ellen DeGeneres, one of America's most visible personality was quoted: 'When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you will fail and both are equally important'.  

To cap it off, your moments of failure will give you the proper perspective on success.⌛