WOW...I have almost made it to a full week of this. I have not done all I had planned to in those first 6 days, but I'm proud that I have done much of it. Change is not an overnight thing and trying to change many things at once can cause failure, but changing one or two, even a few at a time will allow you to get used to the changes then implement more down the road. I am super happy with my start. I did notice that yesterday I apparently could not count. I have since corrected yesterday's title to show day 5, not day 4 do-over.
Today I want to discuss failure. What does it mean to fail? The way I see it, failure only happens when someone stops trying. If you are trying to do something, striving to reach a goal, moving with forward momentum towards a finish line, you will not fail until you no longer try. Even if it takes you longer than expected or if your goal moves or changes, as long as you are moving towards something, you have not failed.
In today's society it seems that everyone looks at things as a pass or fail, black or white, even good and bad. They forget that in the there are the inbetweens. There are the grays and the ok's. Taking life at such a strict level as not to see that would limit your ability to appreciate those things which are not perfect, and let's face it. Nothing is perfect.
Striving for perfection is not a bad thing, it is a way to measure, however, feeling as if you have failed when not reaching it is since it is impossible to reach. Failure only comes when you quit trying to reach perfection.
Well, time for me to continue to reach for my goals. Until tomorrow, blessed be.
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