Have you ever played the game ‘Snakes & Ladders’?
It’s a bit like life. Snakes take you down or backwards, and ladders take you up or forwards. In life, after you have experienced the exhilaration of a ladder, it is quite possible that you could bump into a snake. But on the flip-side, after experiencing the humbling emitted by an encounter with a snake, your next move could land you at the foot of a ladder.
However, at the end of the day, it’s not the number of ladders or snakes that you face in your life that will determine your fate.
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‘Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again…intelligently’ Henry Ford
I am so thankful for my mistakes. They have allowed me to take from my ‘misses’ the lessons I have learnt in the process, so that I can reposition myself intelligently to try again.
Some people I have known throughout the years have allowed their mistakes to literally bury them. And when I write bury, I mean exactly that. They have entered an early grave. And then there are those who have given up while still breathing, and are now literally walking dead-men – who have allowed themselves to be confined to a future that is defined by hopelessness.
But I have great news for you. Neither of these two scenarios need to be yours if you simply see that for every loss that you experience that there is a lesson to be gained.
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Some of the richest lessons I have ever learnt have not necessarily been upon the mountaintops, but rather in the valleys. Valleys, deep and dark as they may be, can do one of two things to you. They can either make you or break you.
It is at your lowest point that you have a choice to either leave or learn. Choose to be instructed by your teacher called adversity.
In the natural world, some of the richest minerals are mined from the deepest mines. So when you are facing your hour, where you find yourself in the depths of some circumstances you hadn’t planned on, simply ask yourself these questions:-
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Life is filled with the scheduling of appointments.
In fact, every time that you set a goal you have set up an appointment. Why? Because you have established something that you wish to achieve and have had the courage to attach a date to it.
But what if the date comes and the date goes, and nothing has changed? Don’t allow your disappointment to be your destination. Don’t set up a memorial on that deflating spot in your life. Simply reset the appointment, and reappoint the time and place that you are going to achieve that goal – and go again.
Remember this, that any great success consists of a succession of failures. Put each failure under your feet, and before you know it you will find yourself reaching that which you have dreamt of – the heights of outstanding success.
Have you ever played the game ‘Snakes & Ladders’?
