You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. — Mary Pickford

There is it in a nutshell.

• Failure is not trying something only to find that it does not work. (THAT according to Thomas Edison is getting a RESULT).
• Failure may mean you may have lost a battle, but it does NOT mean you lost the war.
• Failure is not falling down. It is staying down.

So here’s an encouragement for you for those days that don’t go exactly according to plan, and we all have those right?

You have not actually failed ….. YET.
So don’t camp on that situation, project or whatever it was that did not work out!

It did not work out because you have not yet found the right way to do it.

• Remember Edison. He looked at “failures” as result achieved.
• What results can you see in your situation (lesson, new strategy needed).
• What can you improve on? (Your focus, your training, more time in personal development each day).

So you see a real failure is one who has tripped up, found something that did not work and stayed there complaining and talking about it for the rest of his life.

You are not there. You simply found something that did not work, or an area you need to improve on.

Get up – brush off that horrible feeling of “failure” – you are not one of those.

You have a fresh start in front of you. Take it and go out and win the war!

Yet these two people are direct opposites in the way they handle situations. Let’s take a closer look.

What does a worrier do?
When faced with a problem or an obstacle in life, a worrier:

• Focuses on negative possibilities and MEDITATES on them.
• Goes over in his or her mind the “what ifs”. All of these “what ifs” in his mind have a perceived probability of a negative outcome. Right? (I call this the “what if drama”).
• Usually the negative outcome of the problem is so real in the worrier’s mind that his emotions are already involved.
• A worrier is full of fear!

You cannot worry for too long without negative emotions overtaking you. Then the next step is for these emotions (which started from negative thoughts) will travel into the body and even cause sickness!

And the problem is not solved. No one is hurt. Nothing has actually happened – YET. But in the mind and imagination of the worrier the worst has already happened. Ouch!

So in a few words:

What does a warrior do?
When faced with a problem or an obstacle in life a warrior:

• Focuses on the possibilities of winning! (What warrior would ever go into a fight with his or her mind on losing?)
• The mind of a warrior is trained and discipline to focus on the positive outcomes in any battle. He or she is completely focused on winning!
• A warrior is full of faith.

So in a few words:

So let’s compare the two again:

A worrier’s mind is filled with FEAR.
Any action that he or she takes will be motivated by fear. This may indeed cause a negative outcome to the situation.

A warrior’s mind is filled with FAITH.
Any action that he or she takes will be motivated by fatih. This creates a high probability of causing a positive outcome to the situation.

Today’s question:
Are you are warrior or a worrier? Is your mind filled with FAITH or FEAR?

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What a powerful rebuke no? How many times do you and I permit a situation and then when it actually happens we get upset.

But you might be asking, in what ways do I actually permit a situation?

There are three main ways you permit a situation to happen (that could have been prevented):

1. Deliberately ignore the signs of something growing simply because you really don’t want to deal with it. This is the delusion of “if I ignore it, it will go away”.
2. Lose your focus because of distractions. You did not even see it coming because you were too distracted.

li>Talk yourself into it (or think yourself into it). Negative words thought and/or spoken can get you and I into more trouble than we realize.

Prevention is always better than cure right?

The solution is:
So many situations in our lives can be prevented. How?

• Take courage to confront a small situation before it becomes a big one.
• Stay alert to what is happening around you. So many things (especially accidents) happen in our lives in a split second of distraction.
• Make sure that you are speaking and thinking positive words every day.

Don’t waste time complaining about what you permitted.

• Learn from it.
• Focus on the solution and the recovery plan.
• Fill your mind with positive words, motivational and problem solving solutions (which you will find when you read good non fiction books every day).
• Follow your recovery plan.

When you and I accept the responsibility for our mistakes, learn from them and determine to recover from them life can only get better – and it does!

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