Day 22: Are we content with failure?

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." -- William Shakespeare

Don't you think that sometimes we are content with failure? Isn't it sometimes easier to say, "okay I failed, so what?" I think it is a harder course to forge our way through the failure, get to the root of it, and turn it around.

Of course, I am speaking of this in terms of weight loss, but it could be applied in other areas of our life, too.

We can always take a situation where we have failed and make something good come out of it, even if it is "just" learning a lesson.

When I step on the scale I am seldom content with what I see. I would guess for most people this is true more often than not. I think few of us are "content" with not losing weight. We want to lose weight and we want to see results. When we don't see results we become frustrated and feel like failures. I don't know about you, but I am not content with failure in this case.

Contentment can take many forms, though. I can say I want to lose weight and am going to do "better," but instead I do nothing. That is my curse. I get frustrated with my inability to consistently lose weight and I become despondent and find myself no longer wanting to try. I get frustrated with my failure. I get frustrated to the point of giving up or at least seriously wanting to give up.

I am often content with mediocrity in some areas of my life because it seems like it is too much work to strive for greatness. Are you also content with mediocrity or failure?

Ask yourself today what you want to aim for and go for it!

Remember, in the face of our failures to be good to yourself and to others!

Karin