Winning Feels Good But Sometimes Losing Is Better For Us
Of course we all know how good it feels to win, meet a goal we set, or take a chance and having work in our favor, but what about when things don’t go the way we wished they would? The answer to that depends our outlook on the situation. Times we lose or fail can be an eye opening reality check for us that can help us make the necessary adjustments in order to see greater things come to pass. Whether it a be a physique competition, a personal goal you had set, a job you were trying to get, or maybe a relationship that you really wanted to work, and for whatever reason things didn’t go the way that you had hoped, and you feel a sense of loss or failure, that is the best time evaluate yourself and really focus on what the real reasons are that kept you from meeting the goal you had set. Once you come to terms with those things, you can make adjustments and improve apon the weak blind areas within you that you couldn’t see before. Granted somethings are beyond our control, however, there are many factors within ourselves that we can control in order to give our selves the best advantage down the road. Just as an example, I competed in a bodybuilding competition one year that I won and felt good about. I finished out strongly over my fellow competitors which left me with a feeling of well, maybe overconfidence. After that I didn’t think I had too many more improvements to make so I did a show the following year arriving confident that I could win being in the same condition I was in the previous year. Boy was I wrong! As soon as my weight class stripped down and started pumping up before going on stage, I knew that I was beat! There was a whole new breed of bodybuilders on scene that year that were bigger and twice as ripped as competitors the prior year. Needless to say, I got my ass kicked in that show. After licking my wounds for a few days I decided to re-evaluate my diet and training strategy. I read tons of info better educate myself on the subject of bodybuilding, nutrition and supplementation. I made some drastic changes and worker harder than I ever had and entered the same competition 3 years later which produced even better, more conditioned athlete’s than 3 years prior when I lost, and I ended up winning! You see the loss from before set me up for a bigger victory down the road. This type of pattern can occur in so many aspects of your life. We as humans were designed with the ability to heal and to grow stronger physically, mentaly, and emoitionaly. We were designed to be overcomers not under achievers. Alot of people tend to let a failure or defeat weight them down and kill their ambition, making them feel like they can’t do any better. The good news is we were designed with all the tools to make ourselves better and overcome obsticals, we just need to be positive and give ourselves a chance to use those tools and allow them to work in our lives. If we do this and don’t give up on ourselves, stay consistent, then we will bring ourselves to a much happeir more successful place in our lives. Don’t settle for less or even the same, use all tools available to you and use them to develope your talents and skills. Be honest with yourself about flaws and weak points and learn about what you can do to turn them into strengths. You haven’t come this far in your life and survived what you have been though to merely just settle or roll over and quit. You have come as far as you have in your life because your preparing for something bigger and better that will come to pass.
