Why You Can’t Afford to NOT Live on the Edge
We need to live on the edge…….of our capabilities.
This may sound crazy, but we need to live as if failure, is an option. Read that again, it wasn’t a typo. We’ve all heard the saying “failure is NOT an option,” but I’m here to tell you that failure just might be the best thing that ever happens to you. Hear me out.
While it’s often thought of as something negative, failure is actually one of the most important factors to our success. It’s a fact, that successful people fail a hell of a lot more than they succeed.
Don’t believe me? Go try working out. In order to produce muscle growth, you have to apply a load of stress greater than what your body and muscles are used to. You may have to lift heavier than you have before, or do enough reps until your face looks all screwed up, and you basically want to give up…
but then, something awesome happens. Once you rest, your body adapts…and what used to seem unattainable, now is. That’s called growth!
In life, lifting heavier is pushing what your mind says you are capable of, to the limit. Get out of your comfort zone. Comfort is the home of mediocrity, and love don’t live there. Love lives on the edge, of your capabilities.
This edge is where failure is…and just like that faced screwed up, out of breath rep that makes us stronger, we can not be embarrassed to let others see us in the process of failure. We may only view end results on our social media timelines, but the truth is to get there, there’s a lot of struggle we don’t see that takes place behind the scenes. What is usually presented to the public is the nice body that comes after the work is done. When we workout, the body adapts to failure after rest, and in life, we gain wisdom from mistakes, after reflection. The reality is that without failure, there is no progress, there is no lesson learned, there is no rest or reflection and there is no growth.
So go fail, and get some growth in while you’re at it. Actually seek to fail today, and everyday, and you can thank me later.
Signed, one who has failed time and time again, but lives to tell about it.
-Coach Sorsby
Mind.Body.Spirit.
