08/22/2026
The nature of this job requires facing failure on a nearly daily basis. Sometimes that failure offers a lesson in doing something better or differently.
Often, though, the only lesson many of these failures offer is how to get back up and go at it again the next day. There’s not always something to fix or do better, some days it just comes with the territory.
Christ promises that we will have trouble in this life. Failure is coming, if not, already here. That’s not really the part that matters. What better defines us is what we do with it. What comes next bears greater significance than what happened to us.
Did I learn? Did I grow? Did I try again? Did I fight?
I can’t control the outcome but I absolutely can control my efforts, my energy, my attitude, and my tenacity to get back in the ring. The truth is, if I lose ten times but keep getting back up, I only have to win once. Chances are, I don’t have to be the best in life, I just have to be the last to quit.