I am a Failure!
Say it with me..... I am a FAILURE!..... Yeah I didn't think you would say it with me. Failure is a scary, nasty, intimidating word.
Failure: Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. -Wikipedia
Um... ew. The OPPOSITE of success. No one wants that. No one wants to be a failure. I think NOT failing is holding us all back though. Everyone is afraid of failing. I am pretty sure that failure is single handedly holding back the potential for greatness like the Hoover Dam in pretty much everyone I know. Just in my fitness business alone I hear on a DAILY basis... "I can't do that program, I can't eat clean, I can't coach someone else....." the list goes on. When I ask WHY.... "because what happens when I fail?" Ugh. WHEN!? How about IF? Ok, maybe when you fail. But here is what I have learned about failure, it is going to find me wherever I go, whatever I do. I am going to fail. I have just learned to not let it hold me down. So failure knocked me down... so what... I get up and do it again. Here is just a list of DAILY failures I have had over the past week:
- I FAIL to get up with my first alarm... um hello! Who else hit that snooze button 8 times this morning... haha
- I FAIL to eat breakfast (oops! Better practice what I preach!)
- I FAILED to work out before my kids got up this morning
- I FAILED big time every single day this past week to finish my daily to-do list
- I FAIL to call my family every day... they know I love them right?
- I FAIL as a mother every time my 7 year old tells me how awful I am... well, it's probably not failure because I am setting an example or teaching a lesson... but I certainly FEEL like a failure
- I FAILED big time this week as a housewife... no groceries, the house is a mess and laundry isn't done
- I FAIL as a wife when I am "too tired".... you know what I am saying ;-)
- I FAILED at my jewelry business (this didn't happen this week, just an example)
- I FAILED to do my Bible study this week
- I FAILED to post this to my blog 3 days ago when I wanted to
And the list could go on and on and on. But you get the gist.
I am being open and honest here. I fail a lot.
Failure used to look like this to me FAILURE and some days it still does... but most days I laugh in it's silly little face and make it look like this failure.
So why am I telling you all this? Because failure is a big fat bully that needs to be put in its place. What if every day I told you that you were going to fail at least 3 times? Would you even attempt those 3 things you were going to fail at? Or would you still do them, learn from them, laugh in failure's face and try again tomorrow? I don't know about you, but I am going to go with the laugh in failure's face option... evil-villain-laugh in failure's stupid little face. Who is with me?!
Now I am going to put this in life saving context, you ready? What if I told you that eating the way God intended you to eat (aka "clean eating") and exercising every single day was going to help you:
1. Lose crazy amounts of weight
2. Boost your self esteem
3. Lower cholesterol
4. Give you a hot body
5. Decrease the amount of life sucking inflammation in your body
6. Make you feel younger
7. Give you a hot body...oh I already said that... well I am going to say it again!
8. Save. Your. Life.
Now what? Are you going to sit there and let FAILURE hold you down? Or are you going to drop kick that B like a boss and take control... make failure your little B.. you know what I am saying!
Had this been a year ago, 2 years ago... 5 years ago, I would have said, NO I don't want all those above things because I am going to fail and then that will make me a failure. Well you know what? I have failed enough times to know that the longer you let failure keep you from the things you want then you can only blame yourself. Failure doesn't have to be scary. It's ok to say you failed at something... it does NOT mean you have to continue to be a failure. So I failed at some things. Some were non important, but some were important to me... I am certainly not going to throw in the towel and say I won't get up and try it again tomorrow... or in 5 minutes.. or an hour.
Don't fear the fail.
Say it again with me, I am a failure!
Failure: Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. -Wikipedia
Um... ew. The OPPOSITE of success. No one wants that. No one wants to be a failure. I think NOT failing is holding us all back though. Everyone is afraid of failing. I am pretty sure that failure is single handedly holding back the potential for greatness like the Hoover Dam in pretty much everyone I know. Just in my fitness business alone I hear on a DAILY basis... "I can't do that program, I can't eat clean, I can't coach someone else....." the list goes on. When I ask WHY.... "because what happens when I fail?" Ugh. WHEN!? How about IF? Ok, maybe when you fail. But here is what I have learned about failure, it is going to find me wherever I go, whatever I do. I am going to fail. I have just learned to not let it hold me down. So failure knocked me down... so what... I get up and do it again. Here is just a list of DAILY failures I have had over the past week:
- I FAIL to get up with my first alarm... um hello! Who else hit that snooze button 8 times this morning... haha
- I FAIL to eat breakfast (oops! Better practice what I preach!)
- I FAILED to work out before my kids got up this morning
- I FAILED big time every single day this past week to finish my daily to-do list
- I FAIL to call my family every day... they know I love them right?
- I FAIL as a mother every time my 7 year old tells me how awful I am... well, it's probably not failure because I am setting an example or teaching a lesson... but I certainly FEEL like a failure
- I FAILED big time this week as a housewife... no groceries, the house is a mess and laundry isn't done
- I FAIL as a wife when I am "too tired".... you know what I am saying ;-)
- I FAILED at my jewelry business (this didn't happen this week, just an example)
- I FAILED to do my Bible study this week
- I FAILED to post this to my blog 3 days ago when I wanted to
And the list could go on and on and on. But you get the gist.
I am being open and honest here. I fail a lot.
Failure used to look like this to me FAILURE and some days it still does... but most days I laugh in it's silly little face and make it look like this failure.
So why am I telling you all this? Because failure is a big fat bully that needs to be put in its place. What if every day I told you that you were going to fail at least 3 times? Would you even attempt those 3 things you were going to fail at? Or would you still do them, learn from them, laugh in failure's face and try again tomorrow? I don't know about you, but I am going to go with the laugh in failure's face option... evil-villain-laugh in failure's stupid little face. Who is with me?!
Now I am going to put this in life saving context, you ready? What if I told you that eating the way God intended you to eat (aka "clean eating") and exercising every single day was going to help you:
1. Lose crazy amounts of weight
2. Boost your self esteem
3. Lower cholesterol
4. Give you a hot body
5. Decrease the amount of life sucking inflammation in your body
6. Make you feel younger
7. Give you a hot body...oh I already said that... well I am going to say it again!
8. Save. Your. Life.
Now what? Are you going to sit there and let FAILURE hold you down? Or are you going to drop kick that B like a boss and take control... make failure your little B.. you know what I am saying!
Had this been a year ago, 2 years ago... 5 years ago, I would have said, NO I don't want all those above things because I am going to fail and then that will make me a failure. Well you know what? I have failed enough times to know that the longer you let failure keep you from the things you want then you can only blame yourself. Failure doesn't have to be scary. It's ok to say you failed at something... it does NOT mean you have to continue to be a failure. So I failed at some things. Some were non important, but some were important to me... I am certainly not going to throw in the towel and say I won't get up and try it again tomorrow... or in 5 minutes.. or an hour.
Don't fear the fail.
Say it again with me, I am a failure!
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