If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Lived

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Lori Taylor | CATEGORIES: Outrageous

While it’s fine to build your skills on failures, it’s also important to enhance your soul through accepting your emotions as you have them. Avoid letting the ego take over to make them any more than they were supposed to be.  Experiences breed growth and we crave them bring us joy at a soul level.

When you are on the field of life and you get knocked down pay attention to your next move because for the most part you have three basic choices.

1. Grab your bat and glove and go home.

2. Lay on the field in the fetal position.

3. Get back up to bat.

No matter what you choose, the only outcome I can GUARANTEE from going home or doing nothing is you will never hit that ball out of the park. And life will hunt you down like a dog and find new and better ways to “teach” you what you are avoiding, so best to accept and stop resisting so you can move through it easily.

If you face and embrace the situation, pick yourself up off the ground and get back up to bat you guaranteed one thing: Another chance to swing for the fences to get what you really want. And like my mamma always told me, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” (pretty sure she borrowed that – ha!)

Watch this inspiring video and tell me, where would we be today if these people had chosen to quit?

  • Tammy

    This one was good. I was outside this morning thinking about
    what if things could be easy. I would not learn how to deal
    with hardship until it was to late if that was the case.
    It is better to learn all about dealing with things while
    still young and to use the right kind of words as well.
    The other day I caught myself talking to myself the wrong way
    after reading
    3 Power Tricks To Supercharge Your Day With Gratitude
    I changed the way I was talking to myself.
    Learning to deal with things the right way when your still
    young can give you more hope for the future, even if it is
    harder.

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      Nice feedback – sharing your story with me makes me outrageously happy – thank YOU! LANGUAGE IS EVERYTHING. Never talk to yourself worse than you’d talk to a child. Because who is listening to you and counting on your wisdom is your child. You go girl! Outrageous are you!

  • naam

    That true ” If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Lived ” If never know what is “loser” How we know what is “winner”. I will try to accept my failed.

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      Naam – you are going to do better than that – you are going to CELEBRATE your failure, you hear me?? If you have failed it means two things. 1. You tried. 2. You are aware and paying attention. That is OUTRAGEOUS and you rock! Just pay attention to when you feel like you “failed” and make sure failure is really there. Maybe trying and not getting what you wanted moved you forward to get something even better!!!

  • Maria

    An amazing video. Often we are not told about the process for the most successful people in the world. It really comforts me that every single person has to go through challenging times and pick themselves up again.

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      Yes!!!! You are so right! Very few people wear their failures on a tshirt. At best – we carry them around silently on our backs, weighing us down. But LOOK at these “success stories” and know they failed 100 million ways not listed – maybe lost a relationship through their drive to success – who knows. But FAILURE is the KEY to success. Have an outrageous day!

  • http://pottytrainingpower.com cindy platt

    I know we have lived through moments of complete failure many times in our life. The outcome of my worst mistakes has brought me to a greener pasture. Sometimes when I fall on my knees I bounce back quickly, but there have been some falls that took me a little longer to calibrate my mind, soul, and spirit and those are the moments I am most grateful for at the end of the day. Thank you for keeping this real. I loved the video.

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      The only reason you fall to your knees is so you can pray for the rest of us! You are the strongest person I know – and have so much clarity friend. I want to be you when I grow up.

  • Michelle

    Video is very inspirational and we do learn from the mistakes or hard times – that’s for sure.

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      Michelle – I felt the same exact way. A picture speaks a 1000 words, huh?

  • http://www.rgacreative.com Robynn

    Love the video — so inspiring. A good one to show a child who feels defeated, or even one who doesn’t!

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      Robynn – great point – not sure as parents we teach our kids compassion PROACTVELY , you know?

  • J.R.

    The video is awesome! I feel like I am in the midst of failure right now, and it’s inspiring to know that others have overcome much greater obstacles and gone on to unparalleled success. Thanks for sharing that.

    • http://www.lorirtaylor.com lori taylor

      JR – You’re failing right now? That’s outrageous news. You’ve actually tried something – and you are aware of how you are feeling about it- and you can now tap inside of YOU past the ego or personality that is embarrassed, upset, frustrated – you name it – and find YOU. The one who knows exactly what to do and is grateful for the reset – because quite frankly it had become pretty exhausting searching in the wrong places for answers. :)

      I hope you are well – and you let me know if I can help!

  • Melissa

    A year ago (I’m 39 years old, BTW), I was a graphic design major and “failed” my candidacy review, so I decided to go into advertising. A year later, I’m finishing up my COBA requirements (accounting, econ, yikes!) and will take my first marketing class this summer. Even though failures can be scary and point towards the unknown, I’d like to think that failures can turn into opportunities. I loved that Walt Disney was mentioned in the video. My goal is to maybe work for the Disney company after I graduate.

    • http://lorirtaylor.com lori

      Melissa – that’s fantastically outrageous! I absolutely believe there is NO WAY YOU CAN FAIL. Everything happens as it’s supposed to. Our minds call them failures – but if you end up being fulfilled as a result of your choices – how can you say you failed? Because you said winning is passing the review. Hmmm….who said that?

      Maybe you’re going to be the best advertising person EVER and you will go on to wow the world the same way you always have and realize something I already know…

      You’re getting an A in life – and that test was to turn you towards a better you.

      Let me know when you’re ready for Disney – if your work is good – I know the top doggies there.

      xo

  • Beri

    Very inspiring indeed…After watching this video,i felt like..wow,if they could then i can too,right?I am usually very scared of trying things because i am afraid to dare!!From now on,i am going to face life head on and learn from my failures!!

  • Zinhle

    very inspiring indeed…..thank you for making my day, i really look forwad to the future

  • rosy

    This came to me at the perfect time..thank you for putting this up..All these articles and videos are extremely helpful and i get so much out of it.

  • http://profiles.google.com/hypecomments Kevin Richards

    experience teaches wisdom, every failure is a lesson which helps us to improve in future endeavours.

    http://www.workathomeorganogold.com