PTP:088. Failure is Not Final

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller Episode Number 88. Failure is not final.

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you’re on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Brad leads every person has a god given promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose, and that you must have a plan and a guide to get there. The pathway to promise podcast Not only is your guide through the wilderness of depression and disappointment that stand between you and your promise life, but also brings you insights and direction from inspiring successful thought leaders who have transformed their lives. Welcome to the pathway to promise now here’s Brad

Hello, good people. Welcome to pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Honor, I am honored to have you join me today in this episode number 88 of the pathway to promise where we’re going to talk about failure. Yes, failure, specifically, health failure is not final. We’ll get into that in just a second. They want you to know here the pathway to promise podcast that we are all about helping you helping you to overcome adversity. Specifically, we know there are five DS of of adversity that is depression, and divorce, and debt

and debt. And then there’s also disease and then there’s death, some form or another. we all deal with those five DS in one form or another. And to get through them, you need a plan you need a process. I’ve developed processor called a 40 day away and we

say more about that as we go along in our podcast about how you can move through adversity to achieve what we like to call your place of peace, prosperity and purpose we believe comes from God. You can find out more about that by going to our website pathway promised calm, we’ve got a free gift for you there. And also you can also listen to some great interviews we’ve had with some great leaders who in their own right and their own life have managed to overcome adversity to achieve success in life.

One of the great adversities we have though, is failure. Failure can crush us but here’s the thing. Failure is a common experience for all of us.

And just as I record this, the World Series just concluded a few days ago and the Washington Nationals were able to win every road game and the World Series to to win the World Series. One of the things I noticed though about baseball and

In general is that there is just a fine line between a person who’s considered an excellent hitter and someone’s consider an average hitter.

And both of them revolve around the nuances of failure.

An excellent hitter in baseball is considered if they hit 300 or better. That means they get a hit three out of 10 times an average hitter would be a 200 hitter. That means you get a hit two out of 10 times

just a relatively fractional difference between what’s considered a success and what’s considered mediocre, mediocre.

There’s really only a slight difference in friends about how we perceive or how we deal with success in our lives. And a lot of it has to do with how we deal with failure. It’s been said there’s been a study that’s been what was done. It goes

Right along this thing, I’m talking about baseball that said that unsuccessful people fail. Three out of five times and successful people fail. Two out of five times. Did you get that? There’s really only a small difference between the level of failure but in each case, we fail. Often.

Here’s the thing, friends, we all fail. I have certainly failed. I’ve had complete disastrous in my life in my health and my finances. I had a failed marriage. I’ve had failure in in all kinds of areas in life.

And the idea is to keep coming back. If you stay stuck in your failure, you will be drowning in the malaise of mediocrity. So why is it then friends that failure destroys some people and doesn’t destroy others?

How can we deal with this issue?

failure and not get stuck there and not let it be final.

Well, what I want to encourage you friends is not to live life like you’re on eggshells, not to tiptoe towards the grave tried to avoid failure. The idea here friends is to live your life and to embrace life and understand what failure comes as a part of the deal. That’s part of the process and just dust yourself off and keep on going. Here’s just a few thoughts about failure that I want to share with you today that you might find helpful. See, I think too many people concentrate on failure, they focus on that instead of success. And to few concentrate on success instead of failure. In other words, how we think about things makes a difference. Maybe you’ve heard of the great tightrope walking family called the will Linda family wall way back in 1978. They had a terrible disaster where Karl Wallenda the patriarch of the family, fell alpha taped of a tight

wire in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was killed.

I think a lot of people view their failures as a foe. If you treat your failure as a friend, that is a learning experience, then you can move on in such a way to have more joy, more success in your life. Failure doesn’t have to be a foe, it can be a friend. It’s kind of hard to look at it that way. But let’s just think about some mistakes that you may have made in your life or a mine. I bet you you learned some lessons from the mistakes that you’ve made. Let’s think about it in terms of even athletics like baseball, we’ve talked about before. We talked about baseball in terms of you know, three out of you hit a 300 hitter, then you are doing pretty good. But a good baseball player, a good person in sports, learn from their mistakes and corrects them and gets better than the next time. In other words, a lot of times the 300 hitter, we used to be a 200 better hitter, but they learned how to read pitchers they learned how to improve their stance and their swing and they used

They just don’t. You gotta learn. You almost always fail when you first start doing something

So the idea here is a fail forward for success.

Successful people build monuments instead to their success when they’ve had success. That’s what you need to think about and dwell on and build on your successes. unsuccessful people build monuments to their failures. And that keeps them stuck. Abraham Lincoln said, My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failures. I am convinced people, my friends that a lot of people would choose kind of the malaise of mediocrity or failures, because it’s somewhat comfortable to stay there rather than to take the risk and the chance to succeed.

A lot of people view failure outwardly and too many view fail, too few view failure inwardly. That is, they believe how it looks to other people makes all the difference whereas we’re

not to be engrossed with our failure, but to successfully fail. I’ve heard some people talk about failing quick, failing quick and that’s our technological world and many people involved with writing code and so on fail quickly, in order to make progress. In the Bible, the apostle Paul said, Now I want you to, to know what can you do rest assured that what happened to me that’s when Paul was in prison, for instance, was actually only serve to advance and give a renewed impetus to the spreading of the good news. So the Apostle Paul saw his imprisonment

You see, to successfully fail means it can motivate us to keep trying, don’t stay stuck, let our failure be a motivator. Don’t let your setbacks you know, put you down. Don’t let that be your finish. Let that be just a you know, a detour you could venture could come out on top. Another thing when we successfully fail, we can discover how are failing can help us understand the ways that we need to change. That is we can learn from our mistakes, and then see some different options as a ways that we can approach our problems the next time around. Another thing we can do, whether

So another thing, friends is that too many people

Comes overcome it, you can do that. We don’t have to be at the top of the ladder to start off with things you need to make advancement to get better. You just got to keep trying and keep working, keep persevering. That’s what we’re trying to do here the pathway to promise podcast, give you some tools, give you some means give you some inspiration to help you keep going. Because adversity does strike all of us, you know, via death in the family or we get a diagnosis of a terrible disease like cancer or we have a divorce or relationship breakup, or we are in debt. We’re in bankruptcy or we have depression that develops us because something that’s happened, it happens to all of us, certainly has happened to me.

We choose whether we stay stuck and let that failure crush us. We can choose to know that there’s something better. I like to call it the promise life that God has a promise to live for You have peace. That’s peace of mind, of prosperity, that’s good health. That’s financial vitality.

That’s having the good things in life and a purpose that is having meaningfulness in your life having something to do. That is a contribution to others. You can do that. We can be helpful heard that pathway to promise go to our website pathway of promise com, pick up our free gift there for you. Also, check out some of our past episodes, it could all be helpful to you. And stay tuned as we have more interviews and more things we do here on the pathway to promise because we’re here to help you overcome adversity to achieve your promise life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. Until next time, friends this is Dr. Brad Miller encouraging you to keep your promises because there’s power in our promise kept.

Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com until next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise

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