Don't turn succeses into failures

We are all born with a limited amount of heart beats! We don’t usually have to think about our heart beating—it does its job everyday and is usually ignored until it lacks oxygen (angina) or begins to fail (congestive heart failure). I also believe that we are born with a limited amount of failures and successes. Yes I truly believe that the failures we will experience are finite -- that is unless you turn your success into failures.

Have you watched the French Tennis Open? I follow the William sisters and love their enthusiasm and raw power. I believe they start each game and have the game won. Then I begin to see them defeat themselves with un-forced errors. When you look at the statistics, it isn’t that their opponent was better, it is that each sister GAVE their opponents the points they need to win. In essence they defeat themselves.

I believe that this principle is operative in life. We awake each day with successes waiting to happen and then provide opportunities for failure because we didn’t follow through on the pathway to success. Our job each day is to follow the path to success. That could mean we 1) think before we act; 2) we strive to do it right the 1st time; 3) we help each other; 4) you speak a kind word; 5) you don’t think the worst of people; and 6) you don’t participate in idle gossip.

If you close the day out and don’t think it has been successful then review the day so that you don’t repeat those behaviors that send your successes into the failure column.