Bounce Back

"Remember, no matter how ready and willing you are, all change is inevitably interspersed with backsliding... but... Everyday Geniuses are programmed to bounce back." p. 165 ~ Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, Psy.D. from The Gifted Adult

I love that. Are you programmed to bounce back? It's a learned skill that takes practice to master, but bouncing back from the inevitable downs in the ups and downs is a MANDATORY skill if you want to bring your highest self to the world. Because, if you haven't noticed, once in a while things don't go as planned. :)

How do you respond when something goes wrong? Imagine if you had a team of coaches and parents and friends and advisers who shared this wisdom with you when you fell down:

Mary Kay: "For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."

Robert F. Kennedy: "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

David Viscott: "In the end, the only people who fail are those who don't try."

Michael Jordan: "There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?" And, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Anthony de Mello (from Awareness): "Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldn't be driving with your brakes on. That's what would happen."

Walter Russell (from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe): "I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way."

Donny Deutsch (of The Big Idea show): "There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option.""

James Russell Lowell: "Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

Vince Lombardi: "In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

William Faulkner: "All of us have failed to reach our dream of perfection, so I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Thomas Watson, Sr. (founder of IBM): "The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure."

Are you failing toward success? Or are you beating yourself up with every little misstep? Might want to integrate a Jordan-esque air to your perspective on failing and just take the shot, my friend.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anaïs Nin

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