What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

    What would I do if I knew I could not fail?  How could I know such a thing anyway?  Failure can be defined as a condition of not reaching the desired result as if that was the end of the story.  But isn't that condition temporary?  The experience that took you to that condition of supposably not reaching the desired result is actually a part of the sequence of your journey towards success.  At this place of not momentarily reaching the desired result, you have gained valuable knowledge to lead you one step closer towards reaching the desired result.

    Failure is usually seen as something to be avoided, but is learning something to be avoided? And when you fall down, isn't learning the main thing that takes place when you get up and realize what caused the tumble in the first place? So are mistakes really things to be avoided when afterwards you reflect on better ways to reach your goals?

    Are mistakes part of the process of failure or part of the process of success?  A process is a series of actions and changes that lead to a desired result. What if you knew any worthwhile goal involved a process of awkwardly stumbling, managing to rise up, falling down again, getting up once more and just stumbling around some more until you attain the outcome finally with poise?

    What if since individual actions and temporary results are marks of progress along the way, should they be defined by a one-time declaration such as "failure" or "success"? What if you knew life was just a process that tends towards progress?  Since this process is positive and marked by progress, it is more than possible to visualize and wholeheartedly believe in a successful outcome.

    What if you knew in all of life that falling down is a natural and essential part of the journey as leaping up is also sometimes a part of it? So if you are on a journey, how could you fail? A journey (a pilgrimage from one place to another) is obviously not a one-time event, but just goes onto continued growth in spite of how long it takes to reach another place.

    Where would you go if you knew you could not fail?  Where would your journey take you? What positive processes would you let become notes of progress on your journey?Where would you go?

 

    What freedom would you know when you let go of fear of "failure" and changed the way you looked at it all together? What strength would fill your days as you saw yourself on a journey where you could not fail? What strength would fill you when you stop spending energy entangled in fear of failure and worried about temporary outcomes? What would happen when you became free to direct all your energy to successful outcomes?  

    What would happen in your life if you saw yourself on a journey towards discovering, revealing, unpeeling more and more light to help you clearly see how to reach your goal?  What if instead of seeing yourself as moving three steps forward, two steps back, you realized every step was a step forward because you were learning and such education about life and yourself would enable you to reach your goals? 

    What would happen? What would you create in your life if you knew you could not fail?

Copyright, Sandie Edwards, November 30, 2022.