Power Thoughts About Failure
Power 💭’s about failure
🏀Success for many ultra-competitive people evolves into an idol.
🏀When we allow success to become an idol, we forfeit our aggressiveness. When our aggressiveness is compromised, we will not be the best version of ourselves as competitors.
🏀While that’s the case, as Rick Warren states, “When we let go of the fear of failure, it will let go of its maddening grip on our lives. Only then can we accept the grace of God.”
🏀Warren goes on to state that, “You’ll never overcome your fear of failure until you fully accept the reality that you’re not perfect.”
📖Ecclesiastes 7:20 (NLT) - Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins. / 📖Ecclesiastes 7:20 (GNT) - There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.
💭Concluding Thought: Competitively speaking, Ecclesiastes 7:20 empowers us and tells us that no matter how much we work out, how disciplined we are, and how much we care, we will still take L’s. There has never been an athlete who always got it right and always did what was right! Don’t allow external competitive pressures and influences to lead you to making success an idol. When you do, not only will your competitive experience be less joyful, but your performance will be negatively affected, and your potential will be compromised.
Let go of your fear of failure, and instead accept the spiritually healthy agreement that failure is not an if, but a when - meaning it’s not if you fail, but when you fail. And since we know, like every other competitor, we will fail, it’s not the failure that disqualifies (a successful competitor) from reaching their potential, but their response to the failure that justifies in athletics and life alike they will reach their potential. Keep Going!