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A Lesson About Perceived Failure

This week I want to write about transforming what we view as failed experiences into valuable fodder for our future success.
Naturally, it is never pleasant to experience failure, but that does not make it a bad thing. As hard as it may seem to believe,
there are benefits to experiencing failure. Personal coaches and top psychologists both agree that we can learn valuable lessons
from these experiences that can benefit us in the end.

It seems everyday your friends are telling you of such situations, of percevied failure, this mostly stems from a lack of
self-confidence or self-esteem or from legitimately having tried something and having failed at it your first time. This can create
a sense of failure and one can head down the wrong path temporarily while recovering from such perceived failure.

I always suggest to my friends that they look at their life situations from different angles, by finding opportunities and learning
lessons when things don’t come out as planned. One example that comes to mind is a friend who I’ll call Susan.

Susan’s hope was to become a fantasy novelist, but that dream was compromised when every agent and publishing house she contacted
rejected her first novel. When I first met Susan, she was in a frustrated and dejected place and wanted to know what I thought of her
novel and her aspirations from a friend point of view. I found her book to be very well written and quite interesting. My advice to her was
to keep trying and to also explore other ways to utilize her writing talents.

Susan decided she needed to take a break from focusing on her novel, so she put it away and began volunteering at a local children’s hospital.
She became a storyteller and made up all kinds of fantastic adventures to entertain the kids in the children’s ward. I am happy to report that
she was well received as a storyteller and was soon writing her stories down to share at other local hospitals.

I bet you can guess the rest, Susan became a very fulfilled and successful children’s author and is now very happy that she “failed” at
writing fantasy novels. Her story is proof that not only can failed experiences encourage us to be more flexible and determined, but that they
can also point us in the perfect direction.

I hope Susan’s story will remain with you so that the next time you feel yourself struggling with the idea of “failure,” you will think
differently about it. When you open yourself up to the gifts the universe brings, you can find amazing opportunities.

Please give this message some thought Give yourself a pat on the back for moving along the path to success and keep on moving until you get it right.

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The Thrash

The Health Resource Advocating Self Healing

This is my first post on my new blog dedicated to your Personal Health. There will be tons of tips and tricks on how to maintain your health and more importantly, how to become pro active in your quest for Optimum Health.

In conjunction with this site I am starting a website for my now 94 year old father in his quest to reach 100 Years of Age. Look for that soon and the You Tube video of Dad hanging upside down on his inversion machine which he still does regularly I get most of my interest in health from my father. He has always pushed myself and my sisters to be healthier. Here we will go over some of the principals he and I apply and hopefully you will find little tidbits that will help you personally in your quest for Optimum Health.

It requires a little dedication but once you get into the swing of daily exercise everything will start falling into place………as they say No Pain No Gain More Soon on Diet and Exercise….thrash