Celebrating Failure Week 13

Well this will be more lighthearted than serious, but my story will still provide some great lessons and learning info!  This semester I volunteered with the UF Sidney Lanier Fitness Program where UF students lead students of the Sidney Lanier School through fitness and recreational sport activities on UF's campus outside of the stadium.  As volunteers, we learn and grow just as much as the Sidney Lanier students do, and I love that about the program.  Everyone learns from each other and experiences personal growth.

I have basically no athletic ability...I am very much a girly girl, and hand-eye coordination is not my thing.  I suppose it could be if I actually tried and wasn't so resistant about it!  Anywho, one day some of us were playing baseball with the students, and my stance was completely wrong.  I think I was facing the front with the bat out to the side or something.  Who knows.  The pitcher tells me to shift my body, so I shift out even further from the bat instead of the proper profile stance I suppose you could call it. Oops!  We were both laughing about it, and it took me a good three tries to finally grasp what she wanted me to do.  Thankfully I had an experienced player to my left, and he was happy to correct me, haha.

Well, once I had the proper stance I hit the ball like never before.  I was quite proud of myself, I do admit.  I attribute this success to my positive outlook and mindset...this is huge and goes such a long way in making aspirations reality.  I've learned that the harder I try at something, and the more I force, and the more resistance I give to something, the harder it is to allow what I want to come to me.  I've learned to just have an open mindset, trust in my abilities, and be thankful for the simplest of things.  I urge you to tap into this mindset and to watch all of the good start coming into your life.  This little home-run hit for me really validated all of the things I've learned this semester with just being more open to receiving good things.  Having confidence and knowing I can and will do great things allows so much good to flow through.

This class has definitely changed my perception on failure too.  I don't look at failure as a bad thing at all.  Failure just creates an opposition to what we want, and through this opposition and contrast, we easily know what we do want.  Once we establish what we want (say, for our ventures to be successful and for us to have great interviews and to create great businesses and/or products),  we can simply allow these great things to happen for us by keeping our minds open to new opportunities and doors that will lead us to were we need to be next.  We just gotta keep the light on!