{"id":377,"date":"2017-12-07T01:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2017-12-07T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:12:18","slug":"im-glad-failed-3-lessons-failing-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/blog\/im-glad-failed-3-lessons-failing-taught\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m glad I failed\u20143 lessons failing has taught me"},"content":{"rendered":"
I think of when I was learning Spanish and I got corrected from saying something wrong, I was much less likely to make that same mistake again. I actually learned better through the failed words I tried to speak.<\/p>\n
Though there are more, I want to share three things that failure has taught me.<\/strong><\/p>\n I think one of the saddest things we can do is let our failure paralyze us from stepping out in the future.<\/p>\n We’re afraid to say yes to a new dating relationship because we are afraid we’re going to get hurt like the last one. We’re afraid to try the new business venture because we’re afraid we’re going to end up bankrupt again. But it’s in our failures where we learn and evolve as people. It’s in our failures where the core of our being is shaken and we realize where our trust lies. It’s in our failures where we have the potential to discover our destiny.<\/p>\n So please, please, please<\/em> keep trying. Don’t give up on yourself or on your dreams. The worst thing you can do is give up hope. Yes, let yourself heal, give yourself time, but pick yourself up again and keep walking forward on the road of faith.<\/p>\n “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” -Confucius<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n What’s something you’ve failed at and what did you teach you through it? We’d love to hear from you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not fun to fail and I don’t know one person who actually enjoys failure. It’s quite humbling and often painful. But as they say, hindsight is 20\/20. It’s looking back on the failure where you realize the lessons that were learned. I think of when I was learning Spanish and I got corrected from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[75,74,73,77,71,76,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nBut we learned that we actually don’t want to do what we thought we did, at least in the way we did it. It wasn’t sustainable. We have some amazing lessons in how we would do things differently, as well as all of the natural learning curves that come from living in a foreign nation, childbirth in a foreign nation<\/a>, and a language was learned<\/a> as well and intimate friendships forged. If we wouldn’t have stepped out, we would have missed out on all of those things. Plus, I would probably still be dreaming of the original dream thinking it’s what I want to do in life.<\/li>\n