Failure Is Not The Finish Line!

I really love a cheesy quote, and one of my absolute favourites is one that I read shortly before I started writing. It reads:

Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a part of the process. - Arianna Huffington

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This one quote really changed the way I thought about success and failure. I have failed a lot in all aspects of life, with the way that I am, I find it very easy to just give up and move on to the next thing. Especially if I am not seeing results straight away. However, after reading this, it started to make me look at failure in a different way, and in doing so, made my own phrase:

Failure is not the finish line.

It pretty much means the same thing, but it is putting more of a focus on when you fail, it doesn’t mean that it is over. It doesn’t mean that you stop there and don’t move on. Whether that be for the thing you failed in or something else, essentially, you have just hit a checkpoint.

I find that this way of thinking helps me continuously move forward and strive to be better, there is so much we can learn from failing, and yet so many of us are afraid of it. We don’t like to fail as we don’t like to get things wrong. It is perfectly natural to feel this way, however, doing things wrong is a great learning tool. How can we know how to do right if we don’t do wrong first?

This is a learning tool that we use from a very young age. If you eat sand and it doesn’t taste very nice, we know that was a wrong move, but we also know not to eat sand anymore. All because we are now older, does not mean that we cannot use the same system to determine what is the right way for us to do things. Also, don’t eat sand kids, it’s not good for you.

So, remember, failure is not a bad thing, it is actually important to fail because we learn from mistakes and we grow to be better people as a result.