No matter how many times you have tried and failed, you can always start again; life is a journey that comes full circle so that when you think something is ending, you could equally be standing at the start of something new. Jonathon Huie wrote “Celebrate endings for they precede new beginnings”.
Failure leaves a long legacy and much as we yearn to start afresh memory makes us resist, continued failure makes it feel like we are setting off down the same familiar road to disappointment.
Disenchantment with an old plan can create the energy for change. Martin Luther King wrote “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle”.
Change is about action and reaction; we do not seek to change the gentle ebb and flow of annoyance in the rhythm of an otherwise contented life. However a life punctuated by disaster and disillusionment motivates even the weakest of us to strive for change. Changing the way we did things in the past gives us a second chance to get it right, so dropping the weight of whatever did not work, influences our decision to change expectations, change goals and change direction. Become stronger, push harder, because nothing is sure, except to know that if we do not change everything will stay the same.
Title quote by Victor Frankl