Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is day 467 of our trek, and it is Thursday and time for our 3-minute mini-trek called Wisdom Unplugged. This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little additional content for today’s trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom each Tuesday and Thursday. So let’s jump right in with today’s nugget.
Today’s quote is from Croft M. Pentz, who says, “Failure is merely the opportunity to start over again, wiser than before.”
We will all experience failure to various degrees in our lives. Practically every day we attempt tasks and actions where we fall short. This is to be expected and should be welcomed. We can learn so many great lessons and gain much wisdom as we strive to succeed in various areas of our lives. While none of us desire to fail, neither should we fear it. If our decisions and subsequent actions do not cause loss of life or limb, then we can overcome nearly every other outcome of failure.
One of my favorite animated movies is the Disney movie called Meet the Robinsons in which the entire overriding premise of the animated film is that we should rejoice when the projects we are working on fail because it allows us to gain wisdom and provides one more verifiable way we know does not work. The tagline of the animated movie, which I have adopted for myself, is to “Keep moving forward.” So, do not fear failure. Instead, embrace it, learn from it, and gain wisdom through it. Then learn to enjoy your journey, even with its detours and obstacles, as you “keep moving forward.” 2 Timothy 1:7 instructs us, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power,...
