Yeah. Failure is often our own coloring of an experience we either didn’t want or weren’t ready for. Our judgment makes it wrong. But the experience itself is just that – an experience.

As I look back over my life, I could probably say in all honesty that the vast majority of my experiences have been a failure. It can be disheartening, especially if you allow yourself to think that the future will hold more of the same.

Maybe it was a failure. Maybe not. I think it’s all from your own personal perspective. How do you hold what it was?

Personally, when I stay centered in myself, I like to remember that there really is not negative experience – just experience. It’s my labeling it negative or positive that creates my reality around it. Even the toughest experience could be positive if we consider it against the ‘big picture’ of our lives.

So you could say I failed at teaching. However, I met some wonderful people along the way and improved my confidence by teaching large classes of adults.

With every negative there’s a positive. I’m sure of it.

I say, follow your heart. It’s not always the easiest way to live. But it is certainly the most fulfilling.

Webomatica,

I’ve never thought of failure in relationship to larning music. It makes perfect sense. Thanks for bringing that into my awareness.

I guess the same could be said for anyone learning anything new. You should have seen my first website 10 years ago…

Having a music background, I’d say every time you practice a piece in the beginning, that’s failing over and over until you get things sounding great.

Wow sounds great. I took the traditional route myself, wish I had read the Rich Dad Poor Dad book 15 years ago. Now I’m a freelance designer, but my real ambition is to take one of my ideas and make a business out of it – currently have an idea for a simple givaway promotion product I have Patent registered, a couple of ideas for online businesses – one’s nearly there, and have written and illustrated a kids book I am trying to get published. I have failed before but one day one of them will come off!

Richard Branson, I should have thought of him. I read Rich Dad Poor Dad. Nice book. Interesting read.

Personally, I took the tried college – didn’t take, took a job that let me backpack, mountain climb and kayak 3 months out of the year, trained in alternative medicine and now a solopreneur web-business developer tract myself.

Karin H.,

Exactly. It’s all in the way we frame it. Perspective and perception make up our entire existence. From where we look is how we see.

Good if you only see the ‘learning-process’ in a so-called failure. Embracing ‘failure’ makes you grow, grow in experiences, grow in skills.

It’s not always easy to see the good in a failure, we’re all humans and we get disappointed – especially in ourselves for not getting it right the first time – but the ‘reward’ of getting-on, trying again, learning from the mistakes you made the first time: exhilarating!

Hi, and welcome.

I hear you. It seems everything worth doing in life requires risk. And risk often leads to not always getting the outcome we want. But that’s a good thing because without ‘failing’ we can’t learn.

What’s a couple of your favorite biographies?