The failures we endure throughout life set us up for something we might not even know is coming our way. Too often do we instead see these failures as a set back, instead of a chance to learn from them and use them to be better future versions of ourselves.
My friend Vanessa and I had started up a business a few years ago now, and we were totally scared at first. We didn’t know exactly what we were doing, but we just said “We got this!” and jumped right on in. We had lots of fun and made plenty of memories, but in the end, the business ended up failing. I remember being devastated about that fact at the time and feeling like the biggest failure.
But here’s the thing: we didn’t really fail. Did it work out the way we wanted? No. Did we get the results we were looking for? Not exactly. What we did get, however, was a whole lot of lessons that were there at the time they needed to be to teach us how to be better in the future. It was an opportunity to try our hand at something we put our minds to and the realization that we could make it happen. It didn’t happen how we had planned, but it did happen. And what can be done once, can be done again, better, faster, stronger.
Had I not taken the chance to jump right into business ownership and willing to deal with the adversities that inevitably come with that, I would have regretted it the rest of my life. Learning from mistakes is what shapes us as individuals and without them, we would not be able to find the answers that we are looking for.
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