G = Go

(Our premise, if Plan A fails you still have 25 other options)

Based on our premise, if we have failed, one of the most difficult steps to take after a fall is the first step.  When we go down we want to stay down. 

It takes great courage to rise up after a fall.  And rise we must … and rise we shall with a proper mindset. 

Mindset is a good word – a great word, as you will soon see.

The word “go” is a pretty great mindset attitude.  Where we were didn’t work, so now we must “go” to some new place.  What exactly does that look like? 

Question:  Where do you want to go? 

For clarity sake, let’s understand a principle.  To “go” somewhere does not always mean a physical relocation.  Often we don’t go anywhere.  Many individuals choose to rise from where they are and conquer. 

Where we need to “go” is often a trip we take in our minds and hearts.  We revisit the “why” of our failure.  We examine it from head to tail, from east to west and any other metaphor you choose. 

And after we revisit the “why” we start answering the “how”.  The “how” takes many forms, and some of those forms include these:

            Retooling

         Re-educating

      Educating

   Finding a mentor

Accumulating more resources – financial and physical

All of these fall into the scope of “Learning from our fall”. 

And after the learning – we go to those new places, we learn new skill and techniques, we rub elbows with others who are smarter and more wizened than we.  We become smart enough to figure out the “why” of our failures and then we set about answering the “where” and that becomes our new direction.

We GO. 

Here is something to consider.

“Your present circumstances don’t

determine where you can go;

they merely determine where you start.”

~Nido Qubein

~Bill Gates started in a garage, and he didn't complete his college education.

~The airplane started in a bicycle shop.

~Oprah Winfrey was raped at age nine.

~Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair was often thought of as a failure by his teachers.

~Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison.

Has some failure or unpleasant experience haunted you in the past?  The key word is “in the past.”  And now, you get to choose the next steps.

Are you ready to get a new start?

G O !

  

P Michael Biggs

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