Failing is Normal

As a Dad I see my kids fail daily. When they were younger and tried to walk they would get up and fall down. When they would try to use a fork or a spoon they wouldn’t be able to pick up food with it. When it’s time to clean up they put toys in the wrong bins or are defiant and not willing to cooperate.

Failing is a normal part of human life. When we were cave men and go out on a hunt or forage, we would try to get food to sustain ourselves. We weren’t always successful. So we would go back out the next day and try again or we would try a different time. Maybe 3p wasn’t a good time to hunt so we’d try maybe 5a.

In our now world, failing is normal. When we try to improve ourselves we fail. If we need to get up earlier in the morning to help get ourselves and our kids ready it takes a few weeks to get that routine down. So don’t fret about hitting that snooze button when you’re in the process of making that change. You will hit it and you will fail but success is “getting up more times that you have fallen down.”

Teach your kids to try again. Teach your kids it’s okay to fail. We see all these pod casters, influencers, speakers, or friends that seem to have “made it” and we think “oh that was easy for them” we start justifying or creating excuses on why they are successful but we aren’t. We don’t know their plight or their struggles they went through to get to where they are.

So next time something seems impossible or hard to do remember this “failing is normal and success is hard” so that when you struggle you can get back up one more time.