Life in case you haven’t noticed will sometimes kick you when your down. I think due to the week I have had it would be an appropriate time to discuss failure. It has been a significant week, in terms of failures. The young people had their tennis tournaments this week. The results were mixed, some lost. I had to lead yet another football session. It did not go well, I lost my temper. Whenever I fail at something I have a habit of beating myself up for about a week. This is bad because there is a danger I will miss the point. With every defeat and failure, there are lessons to be learned. I recall what was said to Bruce in Batman Begins after he came close to dying: “Why do we fall Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.” You see we only ever truly fail at something when we stop trying. Its OK to make mistakes, it's not OK to give up because you are making mistakes. And it's not OK to be childish because your mistakes cost you.
I did a lot wrong when leading that session. I did no stay calm. I was too proud to get another worker. The list to me seemed endless. However, what I did notice was that only a handful of young people caused the problems. The young people who I had spent time with did not get involved. They stayed back, they were obedient. All most young people want is your attention, you give them that and you get their respect. That is the main thing I learned from that session.
Now for the second lesson. When you make mistakes, it is easy to blame someone else. The truth is the blame normally falls on the man who points the finger. It is easy to blame someone else. The world is wrong, and I am right. However, if you don’t look inwards for your solutions then you will never grow as a person. So go out, make mistakes and learn and eventually your mistakes will build to your successes. And remember 'many of lives failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up' - Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931).
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