So, how will you choose to see failure?
Unemployment, slow business, foreclosures, and underemployment are just some of the struggles pressing into the hearts and minds of many today. As the debts pile up and the opportunities apparently diminish, the personal repercussions can cause us to lose hope and begin to see our lives as failing. This situational depression can weigh on one's spirit to the point of discouragement and negativity as we paint ourselves as failures.
What if your perspective, not your current circumstance, is the problem? Today's On-Purpose Minute challenges us to stop looking outward and begin looking inward and upward for a fresh approach that holds the key to the present situation and life beyond.
Thomas Alva Edison, the great inventor, saw "failure" as information. (See the video clip "I Haven't Failed" by my actor friend, Frank Attwood, who portrays Edison.)
Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, in the movie Apollo 13 is attributed with saying, "Failure is not an option," in the face of saving the crew in space.
I'm struggling right now with many challenges in life, business, and family. Perhaps I needed this message more than you do, so forgive me for talking to myself out loud. Yes, failure is not an option. Sometimes it simply takes that kind of resolve even as the world crumbles about us. I needed to hear that!
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