Losing is Learning

it’s so easy to focus on the fact that we lose and not the lesson in the loss. Nelson Mandela said “I never lose. I either win or I learn“. He goes on to say in that quote that there are so many lessons during times, when our outcomes are something other than what we expect, it is our responsibility to see these lessons. In this episode, I discuss how important it is to change our perspective when what we are trying to achieve in life, industry, or our careers doesn’t happen when we want it to happen. In my first book, I wrote a chapter in titled “faith, patience, and trust“. These are three of the things that we must lean on when we lose it’s OK to feel upset, angry and disappointment, this is our humanity. no one that attempted to achieve a career position to become a professional athlete or to start and grow a business ever did it to perfection on their very first try it was a process for them just like it will be for you. The difference is the more lessons we can extract from, the times we lose the more powerful we become