What does success and failure mean to you?

What’s good about our technological world is that it connects us almost instantly and with relative ease to find inspiration and words of wisdom that can motivate us and give us the courage to keep going when times challenge us. 

Inbred in our human DNA is the instinct to survive.  In a world that's now highly competitive and stressful many of us need all the help we can get to keep going, to maintain positivity when the odds seem stacked against us.  We need to be reminded of our need to make renewed affirmations that we will succeed.  We will climb that mountain.  We will win the race.  We will be noticed, noted, recognised, emulated, adored.  We’ll live in the lap of luxury or if our aims aren’t so grand we’ll be able to pay those pesky bills (easily) and have some left over for the little luxuries we can afford.

What many of us don’t realise however is before we can succeed we have to determine our relationship with success.  By this I mean, do we really feel worthy of it?  Now that might seem like the strangest thing to ask when we’re hyping and punching the air with our positive “let’s go conquer the world statements”, but deep down some of us are scared. 

Now I realise this is relative and not in the true essence of the word and its meaning, but for the sake of this blog I refer to worldly success.  Worldly success shines a spotlight on us.  The spotlight makes us visible to ourselves and everyone connected to us (directly or indirectly).  Worldly success requires maintenance and this means constant focus and attention on the maintaining of our success.  Then comes the wretched anti.  The anti success which we all know as FAILURE.

Now failure is something many of us get.  We get it, because it often lurks in the shadows and depending on how good we get at affirming our positive success mantras and rejecting any possibility of failure its shadow can pounce if our mood is low or we’ve encountered the last straw, the rejection, the frustration, the brick wall!

We’re told don’t think of failure only success…success…success.  Failure must be rejected and abhorred because to even consider it would mean torment and pain; a worthless, unfulfilled life where we're subjected to watch only the few who shine brightly under the spotlight of worldly success.  The failures scrabble about in the darkness as they search relentlessly for that elusive light!  What we don't realise is that when we become so scared of failing, with the greatest will in the world we'll find ourselves drawn back to the wretched thought of it or exhausted by having to pretend it's not there.  

So what can we do?  

How's about looking at what we perceive to be failure, acknowledge that if it comes we're being given a new opportunity to diversify or explore another route, grab the opportunity that our perceived failure brings.

Do you want success?

All you have to do is:

Recognise that failure is the flip side of the success coin.

Recognise that success is relative to you and you alone and should not be dictated by others who often have their own game plan.

Recognise that you can shine under your spotlight of success if you have tried and done your best.

ACKNOWLEDGE that success as a human being is determined by the love you have for yourself and the love you share with others.

Here's to SUCCESS!

LB  xxx 

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