Life gets interesting when we fail Self Help Articles | April 7 Wholesale Bills Shirts , 2012 Did this get your attention? It did mine when I saw it in the subject of an email from Ted Talks. It got my attention for a couple of reasons I think:First, because I don?t normally associate ?failure... Did this get your attention? It did mine when I saw it in the subject of an email from Ted Talks. It got my attention for a couple of reasons I think:
First, because I don?t normally associate ?failure? with ?interesting? ?and especially not when that failure is connected to my life! Most of us would call failure a ?set back?, an embarrassing loss, a sign we aren?t meant to do it Wholesale Bills Jerseys , depleting, or disheartening? ? wouldn?t we? That?s the tempting first reaction to feelings of failure. It is a fear response.
After that first ?yeah right? reaction to the juxtaposition of the words, ?life? ?fail? ?interesting, my second reaction was CURIOUSITY ? I felt an inner daring to peek out from my first reaction and to look at this a little closer.
My third reaction was ?Boy is that right on!?
These three responses probably occurred in about a third of a second as I came to land on the third response and that ?something potent here? inner feeling that I?ve learned to follow.
Oddly enough, I deal daily in failure everyday. You could say I specialize in fear of failure. I don?t mean that I am a failure -- although I?ve experienced plenty of what most would call failure. In truth Cheap Bills Hats , I?ve rarely seen my failures as, well, ?failures? ? and so my intrigue with this one line that came into my email box today.
In my unusual vocation as a spiritual teacher and guide, I work with people every day who come to me searching for help, seeking healing Cheap Bills Hoodies , clarity, and renewed direction ?Renewed direction from what?
?Most would say they are seeking solutions to situations and circumstances in life that are making them feel stuck, fearful or failed: stuck in a destructive lifestyle; fearful of remaining lost, depressed, and going around in circles; wounded from a sense of failed love in marriage Cheap Bills Shirts , parenting, or inability for self-acceptance.?
Here are two of the three words: failed life. When we feel we are lost or not living in a way that brings joy, peace, passion and meaningful purpose, we often start to become depressed. Why? We know we are missing something our heart longs for? but we don?t know how to get it (or are too afraid of what we?d have to give up to get there ? if we got there! We feel we are failing at our life in some way.In short Cheap Bills Jerseys , we are feeling a (perhaps unconscious) fear of failure -- even though we might very well cloak it in different language.
No one I know calls me and says ?gosh I?m failing my life and isn?t this just so interesting?
Yet that is exactly true! When we feel most afraid, stuck, and confused -- like we are missing the boat in our life -- is exactly when we are being invited to meet up with a new opening and growth in our life? if we but knew how to set about finding and following this trail of an inner wisdom we may doubt we have?
But listen to this:? The completing words to the quote at the top of the article:
?Life gets interesting when we fail ?because it means we have just surpassed ourselves!?
It means we have surpassed ourselves!? It means we have already stepped past the old self in some manner (realized or not) and are in the midst of a newly emerging self!? Now that is very very interesting! It?s, in fact, just what we have been seeking and asking for through our feelings of stuck Taron Johnson Hat , fear, fail ? a new lease on life!
Stuck, Fear, Failure are interesting words because they herald the emergent path of transformation, self-growth Harrison Phillips Hat , breakthrough, insight and revelation! Those are very exciting words and very adventurous places to walk through and to experience! This emergent call of change, are the places that bring bounce back to the step, sparkle into the eye, laughter bubbling up from the heart Jim Kelly Hat , passionate hope for the adventure of living.? Who doesn?t want that? ? CALL TO ACTION:
1) As suggested in a recent Ted Talk by scientist Regina Dugan, ask yourself this question: ?What would you try if you knew that you could not fail? 2) Really take time with this intriguing question. Take time to see and to daydream about what it would feel like to achieve that thing you would do in life if you knew you could not fail.? What would it look like? What would you feel like? Spend a few days letting that daydreamy feeling seep in. 3) Then look at some area in your life where you feel stuck, fearful, or that you have failed. Get a piece of paper out and draw a starting point in the middle of a the paper and then draw a spiral circling out to the edge of the paper ? as many turns as you like.? (Don?t read ahead
4) Now choose a place to mark 8 more circles all along the spiral at various places you choose (they can be any place you decide to put them).
5) Now add 21 more little X marks along the spiral (again anywhere you feel drawn to put them),
6) Next find one circle or X that calls your attention right now (not the first 2 or the last 2 along the spiral John Miller Hat , but any others are OK to select).
7) Now think of one challenging situation in your current life right now (some place where you feel a sense of confusion, angst, doubt or fear) Got it?
8) Go back to that place you selected a moment ago (in #6) and let that mark stand for this current situation in your life.??
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