We all set out with the best of intention with whatever it is we wish to do. Somewhere along the way our mind jumps into the driver’s seat and we start replacing the intention with the outcome.  How a job should look, how cleaning the house should look, how blah, blah, blah should be.  You fill in the situation, it really doesn’t matter.

We loose site of the original heartfelt burning desire.  When the outcome looks like it isn’t going how we dreamed it, it is a FAILURE.

The job was more difficult than we want it to be, the house was taking longer to clean than we thought, the blah wasn’t the blah we planned.  Again you fill in the situation.

Failure is attaching to the expected outcome and losing site of the original desire of the intention.  We forget why we even felt so moved to start the dream.

Let’s say you decided that you love apples and want your own apple tree so you can enjoy the tremendous pleasure you get from eating a freshly picked apple.  You buy a small tree; dig a hole and plant an apple tree. You wait, and wait and wait.  You begin to get frustrated, then angry, and finally you believe that this is a FAILURE.  It can’t possibly take this long.  You move onto the next dream, leaving the tiny new apple tree to fend for itself.

Was this a failure? I would say no.  Expected outcome became apparently more important than the pleasure of eating apples you grew yourself (your original desire).

The following year you do get apples but they are only bitter sweet, as they are tainted by the notion of FAILURE that lingers.

The key here is to keep your intentions in the forefront even when failure is knocking hard.  Remember, having an outcome stronghold doesn’t leave much room for the freedom of possibilities or endless opportunities to be creative.

If you have fallen prey to the success of Failure blog me and tell me how it made you feel.

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