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Failure is only an event, not a lifestyle so change your thinking.
Keep it positive & look at these unplanned events as drawing us closer to our final goal.

Like the old saying goes, we learn from our mistake or rather I like to keep it positive and look at these unplanned events and drawing us closer to our final goal.

If you go jogging to keep healthy and trip over a stick on the foot path, do you stop jogging as you are fearful of tripping over again or do you learn from the experience and pay more attention to where you are jogging?

Alternatively you can keep focusing on looking for something that you may trip over and guess what, you will find it and repeat the tripping event over and over again.

So rather start to view a failure as an event and change your thinking.

Do you keep falling into the same hole on the sidewalk – footpath, make positive changes.
It’s time to make some positive changes in your life to avoid falling into the same hole.

There is a great story by Portia Nelson titled “THERE’S A HOLE IN MY SIDEWALK” covered in 5 short chapters.

The great thing about life is we can keep repeating the same actions or behaviors or we can learn from the experience and over a period of time make positive changes that ultimately make falling down the holes of life a thing of the past.

Chapter One
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost …. I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter Two
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend that I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in this same place.
But, it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter Three
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in … it’s a habit … but, my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

Chapter Four
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

Chapter Five
I walk down another street.

So we are you and where would you rather be, either keep falling into the sidewalk – footpath holes or make some positive changes.