The day before Good Friday, Thursday, March 24th 2016, I closed the door on the business my wife and I had been running for the last time.
We’d failed. We hadn’t been able to make it work.
Since then, I’ve “not been doing anything” – or, as I see it, I’ve been doing everything – everything that needs to be done to restore my equilibrium, my sense of self, so that, whatever I choose to do next at the very least won’t fail because I’m still in the same mindset I was when I left a business I loved, and had done everything in my power to avoid losing.
I have a set of cards by Eckhart Tolle, with “inspirational quotes” on each. The card I pulled just now, at random, reads
“Whenever you notice that some form of negativity has arisen within you, look on it not as a failure, but as a helpful signal that is telling you ‘wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.’ ”
It often takes a “failure” of some kind to wake us up to what we were doing wrong – it takes the negative charge of the emotional exhaustion that comes in the wake of a loss, any kind of loss, to reveal the core emotions, energy, and strength that will lead us, eventually, to success. That’s why it’s so important to take that time – however long you need – after a loss, of whatever scale, to just be, to let the wheels of your mind spin, recover your self – the strengths, energy, and emotions that will bring you success, and to identify the sphere in which you will succeed.
It is ok to fail! Many people have just use that as an inspiration moving forward to achieve your success 🙂 best of luck!
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Thank you – you’ve really summed up the aim of this blog – to let people know that it’s okay to not be okay, it’s okay to fail – it’s what you do once you’ve assessed and analysed the “not okay”, the “failure”, that’s important 🙂
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I think you are doing great things 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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