Most times in life you will fail. Life is full of challenges in all aspects of life. Many times we unfortunately will fail at a goal or task. The key is to learn, adapt, and persevere. That is the only way to achieve meaningful goals.
Failure is a fact of life
We learn quickly about failure from the moment we are born. We stumbled our way through developmental stages with multiple failures along the way. However nature has a way of forcing us to keep trying to achieve the goal. As a child these failures occur when trying to roll over for the first time, or begin to crawl, or begin to walk. We spend more time failing and falling down than we achieve the purpose at the beginning.
A developing child is a massive highlight real of epic fails from falling out of a chair to sometimes falling down stairs. That which does not permanently hurt us makes us adapt and learn how to keep the same failures from happening again.
School lessons of failure
As we progress along into school age, we get to learn all new ways of failure. These lessons can come from the first time forgetting lunch at home or getting a bad grade. We hopefully learn from those mistakes and try to eliminate the chance of it happening again. Of course there is the high probability thst we will fail at the same thing again.
Even fun times and hobbies can teach us about failure
Regardless of the leisure time activities we enjoy and chose to pursue, failures seem to find their way there also. A knitter missing a loop, a musician missing a note, a woodworker cutting too short. Even sports can quickly teach you a thing or two about failure. I guarantee in golf you will miss a shot much more than the perfect hit.
This is also true with recovery in Therapy
In the short term rehab world there are many times where failure is a fact of life. It’s the learning from the failure that makes the difference in functional gains. Consistent education and cueing from a therapist for proper body mechanics and hand transition to get up from a chair, or focusing on proper foot placement when walking to increase stability and safety. It is the learning from the failure that allows for the progression of movement.
Don’t fear failure, Embrace it
So don’t get frustrated with failure. Use it as the teaching tool that it is. The more adaptive we are to change by learning from our failures, the more success we will enjoy. The highest peaks require the greatest sacrifices. Those sacrificees are contiual bumps in the road of failures at one point in time. Shoot for the starts, but remember you need to dust yourself off at least a few times along the way.
