Day 8: Starting Over

“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” –Gina Showalter

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat, a detour not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing.” –Denis Waitley

The journey of 1000 days is our attempt at “being” better (or as they say south of the border, “Vive mejor”). The plan is to be intentional in the critical areas of our lives - be it our mental or spiritual or physical condition. We want to be thoughtful about our thoughts and actions to see if it improves these areas of our lives. The challenge was to be intentional for 1000 days in a row.

Well, the past two days I failed and failed miserably. I lost my mojo, didn’t do a blessed thing with intention or focus. I did not focus on an idea or ride my bike or really do much of anything. I was just in sort of a joyless funk ... all day.

The interesting thing is before I started the journey of 1000 days I had a bunch of days that were just as blah and I never really noticed. With nothing to compare those days to, I wasn’t aware how bleak my lack of focus could make my life. Yet, any attempt to do something opens up the risk of failure; at the same time opening up the opportunity to excel. Failure is then often accompanied by frustration and guilt, which tends to discourage and immobilize us. Once again we find it easier to “say nothing, do nothing and be nothing.” Not on this journey! The only important thing is to get up and try again.

Tomorrow I am starting over. Guilt and frustration are not going to delay the journey. Don’t let them stop you either. Let’s joyfully start again ... (Did I mention I like beginnings!)

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