I've thought about times I felt I failed. How those moments, at the time brought me down.
Now at an older age, with life experience I no longer look at those moments of failure of moments of success.
Today I want you to recognize your moments and change the ones you feel may be failures. I want you to see them as moments of success. Why? Because you survived them. You learnt from them and you grew from them. Mostly, you became better.
All of those are keys to success and bravo to you!
It's up to you how you see things..
I was finding it difficult to define a relationship after being in one for almost 20 years. Trust me when I say, trying to reestablish the right perspective can be difficult. At times, running away appears easier when things get tough. Although this is not truly the best answer, to some it's what may work.
These past few weeks in my new life was a difficult chapter to say the least. Struggling with a traveling issue and learning how to be a team under stress was something we did quickly, effectively and in the end, successfully. There wasn't time to slowly make plans, no safety contingents and not many people we had in close proximity to help guide us in the right direction. We did research with limited resources and made the best of what we had.
In the end, we averted something that could have been much worse. Taking a deep breath, safely back at home in the comfort of friends and family we have taken the moment to reflect.
I am in awe.
This is what it means to be in a partnership. Not only did I depend on him, but he, on me. We pulled our best resources out and obtained the ideal result with the outcome desired.
He made me feel safe, loved and gave me the opportunity to do what we needed to do together. We communicated, trusted and developed something I've never had in my entire life. I've learnt to follow when it was necessary, was trusted when I needed to lead. We define "us" in the moment we needed to.
I watch team figure skating and now understand the level of trust and faith they need to have in the other. To let yourself be thrown or to trust the catch. - I know this is a segway but it's the only way I can describe things now. He's simply my partner and that's all I can ask.
Tell me, what would falling off a bike would teach you in the moment, and would you ride again? To fall is to know how it feels and what to do to make a change. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different results.
I look back at my journey to date and don’t see any of it as a mistake but a wonderful, beautiful lesson that I’ve learnt. A moment of grace that life handed me the opportunity to grow like a tree.
Don’t ever ask to take back all of your moment. They’ve all taught you something, hard or easy. YOU have become better for each of them.
Love yourself for who you are becoming.
