failure

excerpt from www.bosanchez.ph

 

Success Doesn’t Teach You Much;

Only Failure Teaches You

Your Most Powerful Lessons Of Victory

       This is the irony of life.
       Success doesn’t teach you much.
       It’s only Failure that teaches you your most important Lessons of Victory.
       When you’re successful, you don’t know why you’re successful. You just assume that perhaps it’s this or that thing.
       When you’re successful, you’re complacent.
       When you’re successful, you’re not teachable.
       When you’re successful, you’re proud.
       When you’re successful, you’re hard-headed.
       But when you fail, you fall on your face.

You hit the ground. 

Bang!

       You’re stunned. 
       You’ve dazed.
       You’ve got blood on your lips.
       You’ve got massive pain on your knee.

Suddenly, you’re attentive.

       Suddenly, you’re quiet.
       Suddenly, you ask hard questions. 

“Why did I fail?”

“What can I do so I won’t fail again?”

As you answer these questions, you learn lessons of victory.

And when you apply those lessons of victory, that’s when you succeed.

~dabsq