Not Failure, But Experience.

The Gail Foley Show - Gabbin' With Gail Grows Your Business

I'm at pretty sure if you are listening in to this show that you've already been introduced to the famous Thomas Edison quote on failure..."I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Don't you find it refreshing to hear failure framed in that way? I truly believe life is all about perspective and if you take every 'adventure or detour' and try to find that silver lining, you just might find it. I share with you on the show today how that happened most recently for me, just last year. I embarked on a learning journey that became my determination and my focus. I wasn't struggling, but I really wasn't feeling very successful. But I was determined to conquer this mountain and become an expert that would thrive! Well, that's not exactly how things turned out. Has that ever happened for you? You think this is the right path and when you learn you did not reach the top of success mountain you feel like a failure? I think most of us have had that feeling, but I find when I look at what I learned from that experience, that's exactly what it was an 'experience'. The experience that I learned something from if nothing more than 'man, that just wasn't my thing' was a better way to understand what just happened than conclude you've failed. It took me a few years to find a true passion again, but because I've been blessed with a few different passionate careers, I knew I just needed to keep 'experimenting' until I found it and I did...and thank you for listening to my new passion.