Chapter 5
How to Turn Failure into Success
Accepting the possibility of failure and understanding how to work with it is key
For most of us, it is the negative feelings created by our past failures often stops us from risking playing again. What is more important for a successful life is to realize that success and failure only exist when we are risking to play the game of life.
Failure only exists when we are playing in life.
When we are not playing, there is no failure, however, there is no success. The truth is, that true failure only exists when we are not willing to risk and play again after having failed. True success can be said to only exist when one is willing to play regardless of failure. That doesn’t mean take exorbitant risks, it means be willing to play and when we fail, learn as much as possible from our mistakes and correct, and play again.
Many of us spend our days thinking about our lives, who we love and how to get more money. When we are in our heads “thinking” like this, we are not present. And when we are not present, love is not possible. Yet, included in our thinking is a wonderment as to why life is not turning out as we would want.
You have a choice in every moment
The ongoing homework for the rest our lives is that when we recognize that we are no longer present and stuck in our past, that we can become present by choosing to do so and love will be here.
When we catch our selves acting on our negative beliefs, we can simply become present to the physical world, in that moment.
In that moment of present observation, you realize that your negative thoughts and beliefs, the worry in your gut, and the fear of taking risks or suffering rejection is blocking you from experiencing love.
COME BACK TO THE MOMENT
Accepting the possibility of failure and understanding how to work with it is key
For most of us, it is the experience of past failures that remain in our consciousness that stops us from playing again.
Failure only exists when we are playing in life. When we are not playing, there is no failure, however, there is no success. My truth is, that true failure is not willing to risk and play again after having failed.
That doesn’t mean take exorbitant risks, it means be willing to play and when we fail, learn as much as possible from our mistakes and correct, and play again.
