Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off and Get Back in the Ring

Nobody likes to deal with failure. It's something we're taught at an early age never to accept! Unfortunately, you can't win all the time. Sooner or later something's going to come up that's bigger than you are, and you're going to have to make a choice. You can keep pounding against the stone wall, getting knocked down every time. You can give up, throw in the towel, decide that you're happy with your lot in life after all and go back to the way things were. Or you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start looking for another way around.

The secret of success isn't to win. It's to learn how to take the hit and come back swinging. It's learning that there are going to be obstacles in your way you can't plow through that are going to take time and finesse to overcome. Most importantly, it's learning that no matter how bad things seem it's only a moment in your life.



Think of it as that skinned knee you had as a kid. Yes, it hurt. Yes, you cried
about it. And a day or two later you were right back out there, riding your bike down that same old street.

Everything is temporary, so accept defeat with good natured humor, dust yourself off and get back into the fight. You're going to lose. The question is whether that loss leaves you the loser or forms another step on your path to success.