Have you ever wondered if failure could be the secret ingredient to your success? Join us as we flip conventional wisdom on its head, revealing how setbacks can lead to greater achievements and a deeper understanding of oneself. This episode is all about redefining success and failure, moving beyond societal labels, and embracing the idea of "positive failures." We share personal stories and insights, highlighting how resilience, intuition, and perseverance are key to navigating life's challenges. You'll walk away with a new perspective, seeing failure not as a dead-end but as a crucial step on the path to self-discovery and genuine fulfillment.
In our discussion, we explore the emotional, physical, and intellectual hurdles that shape our journeys, stressing the importance of not letting societal expectations confine us. We discuss how one person's failure can be another's success, and how a mindset of gratitude and continuous growth can transform setbacks into stepping stones. By the end of this episode, you'll find motivation and strength in your own failures, understanding that they are integral to your growth and capabilities. Tune in for a transformative conversation that will encourage you to embrace your failures and recognize the invaluable lessons they bring.
Have you ever wondered if failure could be the secret ingredient to your success? Join us as we flip conventional wisdom on its head, revealing how setbacks can lead to greater achievements and a deeper understanding of oneself. This episode is all about redefining success and failure, moving beyond societal labels, and embracing the idea of "positive failures." We share personal stories and insights, highlighting how resilience, intuition, and perseverance are key to navigating life's challenges. You'll walk away with a new perspective, seeing failure not as a dead-end but as a crucial step on the path to self-discovery and genuine fulfillment.
In our discussion, we explore the emotional, physical, and intellectual hurdles that shape our journeys, stressing the importance of not letting societal expectations confine us. We discuss how one person's failure can be another's success, and how a mindset of gratitude and continuous growth can transform setbacks into stepping stones. By the end of this episode, you'll find motivation and strength in your own failures, understanding that they are integral to your growth and capabilities. Tune in for a transformative conversation that will encourage you to embrace your failures and recognize the invaluable lessons they bring.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts, and I think that we're referencing failure as success, because we often fail. How many of us can say we're successful? I know you think about it right, and what makes us successful? We've accomplished what somebody else has wanted. Well, they've stated that if you can accomplish this within this rubric, within this grading and scoring system, that score measure, then you might have a level of competence, but why is it that I'm denied or accepted by them? Or the rudimental of fundamental acceptance, is no more than the obligation of resentment.
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Any topic of assertion, including emotional, physical, interpersonal. Some even said it's intellectual. We could use knowledge of course, coursework I'm not really sure academic planning if that is the truth, how could it be limited? How could we have such a broad array or such a shallow assertion? Isn't it for our own personal interpretation, that we succeed, we've fallen, we've given, we've been taken for granted, vice versa, and that continues to advance this world?
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I don't think that failure is success, is it? It is, though, because I can continue to learn how it works for me. How many different genres of practical application within this world, and I'm talking walks that you walk with. How many of them actually provide sustainment in a sense of success, in a sense of failure, or are you the one providing sustainment to yourself? I think about sustainment being completion, crossing the finish line, not staying and hovering over like the start.
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I'm going to try it again and wham, I failed. I'm going to go a different direction. Wham, I failed. I can't quite get anywhere. I seem to go up and down and turn around and left to right in each and every direction, but I'm not quite getting anywhere. Down and turn around and left to right in each and every direction, but I'm not quite getting anywhere. I can't figure it out.
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So your own personal failures is no more than restitution to yourself. I'm being paid back. I'm enjoying it. I did wrong in my life, but I find it within me and I know you're thinking like that. Right, you're the caged animal, the mirrors reflecting on you, there's light, there's a whole world that's lit up, but you're completely in the dark. Would somebody talk to me please? Right, I get it, but do you exist in the world or does their world exist in you? And what's important, by the way, is it the failure of your success? Because I talked to a friend of mine. You know what he told me. He says. You know he said I just wanted you to get over the hump. He says at least every one of us has to experience at least one dramatic, major failure in life. And I'm sitting here thinking like my life's made up of all these positive failures, like I don't categorize the failure to be. This is a negative failure, this is a positive one. All my life was made up of positive failures. Every time I failed, I found success. On the other side, I've been starved, I've been struck in, I've been beaten down, I've been bruised, I lost my goodness, but I found success.
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I was having a conversation last night with some college friends who are graduate level and I told them I says you don't need to set yourself up for failure. And they looked at me like what do you mean? I said think about what I'm saying. I said in no way, shape or form should any topic of interest, especially that's condoning an emotional attachment. I feel about this. Be careful, everybody's got feelings. I hate to see anybody be sensitive and it all be over in the flip of a light. I think it happens quick, I'm not sure. But don't set it up to where there's a limitation. So any topic, any assertion to where there's a yes, a no, a righteous, a evil, a heaven, a hell, a yay, a nay. Guess what? We failed miserably because our existence becomes no more than a label, than a title, something that somebody else has got emotional preference to and an attachment.
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You actually weren't capable of attempting to figure out what this was. You couldn't walk within it. You have no clue where your own personal boundaries are and, to tell you the truth, you're only basing it. Off of what? Logic, reason, theory or textbook? I've read it. Well, the perbatum deposition of actually seeing what life is is way more valuable. My external works, the clock gets wound up and boom, you hit the switch and off it goes. It lasts for a long time. You'd be surprised. Sometimes we need to wind it down.
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So I see myself advancing within this life, but self-doubting antidotes remind me that I know I'm going to fail. So if I possessively bring the, I know I'm going to fail mentality in, and when I stub my toe, trust me, I mean you've only stubbed it. I mean I've seen individuals cut their toes all the way off Great example, by the way. Then you've fallen short of your own expectations that you should be delivered. You should be ridden of those you should be struck in. You should be thrown right on out. I like to advance within this world.
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I think that discovery includes failure, because success is not a score or measure. Success is what. Come on, somebody, come with me. I'm throwing up the white flag. What does it mean? I surrender. Surrender to who? To yourself, the moment that you remove every variable in the world, the variables that can motivate you, even the variables that can defeat you. Remove the variables and hone on in, get zen-like with it. Some of us sit real nice Indian style, we put our hands to the side fingers together, light a few candles, hum, get a few feet floating off the ground. I like that. Don't move, I get it. But when you get to the point to where you're holy, you're zen, your emotional spectrum is within reach at every moment and you can tap on into it with a sense of sustainment, with a sense of resilience, and you can continue to advance.
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They say when a deer gets shot, even in its heart, that it continues to run for up to, I think, like three point something, almost four miles right in its heart. I mean you can't take any more outs and I thought, my Lord, have mercy. Somebody should be manufacturing pure heumelan adrenaline, because we need it in our moments of failure, including our moments of success. You see, I don't want to die. Think about the statement. I did a lot of work with cancer patients, terminally ill patients.
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I don't want to die, but what does that actually mean? Because we're so possessively shallow that being dead is the heart stopping. But yet, of course, we can go straight to the fact you can intellectually, spiritually, physically, intimately, economically, substance, die. You know you're falling asleep if you would. So we don't want to die, but yet we're afraid to live. I don't want to search the rest of my life afraid of death and afraid to live. Think about what I'm saying. Embrace life. What's the worst that's going to happen? You're going to die. Well, that was going to happen eventually anyways. You couldn't stop it. So we need to get over the hump, we need to advance within it, and if failure is success, success is within my failure.
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Notice, there isn't an innocent bystander on the sideline, either hitchhiking, trying to attach themselves to me at the waist, or somebody scoring me and looking down on me and saying this is right or wrong for you. See, I don't think it is intellectual the antidote, remember. It could be a placebo, I'm not sure. But I don't think it's somebody else's acknowledgement, acceptance or denial that takes me in that way. Rather, I think it's my own, it's my assertion, it's my devotion, it's my development. Spend your whole life with the gift of life and it's been handed to you, it's set in your lap, it's wrapped up, it's got that real fancy paper on it, it's double layered. And then here comes the ribbons, the bows. I mean it's completely decked out, nice stationery, fancy ink. Look at the way that they wrote on it, the font that they've used. My Lord, have mercy. Somebody put time and effort into this and you've got the gift of life. It could be a form of life.
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What denomination did you choose, by the way? I chose fear. How is it working for you? I'm scared to death. I have no clue to tell you the truth. Scared to death, excellent reference. So you do plan on dying? No, I plan on suffering and quietly sitting here and letting the whole world pass me by, while other individuals intellectually compel and verbally assert that their notions in this world and what they find to be informative is more relevant. Well, I might like to sleep at times and I do sleep at night. I often ask individuals do you sleep at night? I mean, maybe it was do you breathe while you're asleep? See, some of us we have a hard time breathing. So some of us we have a hard time living and I need to get over the hump because my success is found within my failure and failure.
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Who said that it's only the beginning? I'm continuing to get going? I used to talk and reference and I said my grandmother. I said you've never met her and God bless her, she's still with me, but I'm sure, as time passes by and the biological clock ticks, she's probably not going to be with me for a whole lot longer. But she used to tell me, try, try, try. She looked at me with happiness. She had the love of God in her heart. Christian woman, right, did a good job treasury at the church, writing checks. I'm like, yes, she's doing it right, right, very, very thankful. Blankets and quilts. I mean, my goodness, a lot of giving. But try, try, try. And what I learned from that simple statement and it took years God condemned me immediately, if you would. It took years to get to this point is that success.
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Life is not about your successions, but it's only about how many times you've fallen, you've stumbled or you've been completely cut off or turned upside down.
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And it's about your own intuition, your own gear, your driven, your drive, your perseverance, your gratitude, what you have within you, something that can't be bought and changed and taken out of you, because you can continue to advance, you can continue to succeed. So I've fallen multiple times, on multiple occasions, and God helped me to tell you the outright honest truth I find success within my failure. Do you know why? Because one man's treasure is another man's trash. And, to tell you the truth, I'm not going to sleep on it, I'm not even going to put it to rest. I am going to continue to advance within this gift of life that I've been given. So find failure within your life and smile, not resentfully, but smile in a sense of happiness and joy and pleasure, knowing that, regardless of what's happening, you're still capable, you're still able and you can find yourself within that gratitude of notion. God bless you. Thank you for listening. Don't forget failure is success.