Why failure is a given
No matter how we try, the one thing that we can count on is failure. What makes us though is how we deal with it.
My program was on track, everything was coming along just nicely until I picked up a new injury. That is par for the course, at least for me. If you push the limits then sometimes you are going to overstep them. There I was happily pushing more weight because the last time I’d done this routine I’d noticed that I needed to increase the weight – it was an exercise I’d not done often before. I’m still not sure what went wrong and I’ve replayed it in my head a number of times.
But that isn’t the important point. It’s how you deal with it and I have to admit that I dealt with it poorly. Not intentionally, but because it was a rib injury it impacted on just about every exercise I did, even the cardio. So I gave it a break.
It was the right thing to do. Better to take a couple of weeks out than create something which would keep me out of training for months. But, here is the mistake; I allowed myself to shift my daily routines – I mean it wouldn’t hurt would it?
Well four months later, I’m now struggling to re-establish those routines. And there is the lesson. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got more things I could do, more things I need to do than time to do them. There are solutions to that, but in the end we have to make choices.
We are going to fail. If you are prepared for it then you can cope with it and move on. If it catches you by surprise then it can shift you into a new paradigm without you even realising it.
So how do you deal with failure?
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