Embrace Your Failures (in a healthy way)

I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. – J.C. Penney

To the extent that you reject, or separate yourself from, your challenges you will fail to experience real growth.

Of course, you don’t want to embrace or seek calamity or catastrophe, but instead, be willing to risk and fail.

Often, it’s simply being willing to have things turn out less-than-perfect.

Go beyond making peace with problems/issues/setbacks/failures and embrace and honor them for the necessary steps they are.

Or continue to resist them and have them (the same sorts of problems) keep showing up and again and again

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