October 30, 2025- Resilience is formed by failure

You haven’t failed until you stop trying.

~Jon Gordon

Failure is part of the process. Failure is temporary, until you choose to let it define you. There will be another chance, another opportunity. Can we seize that opportunity to try something else? Can we reflect on our failures and see where we had power to change the outcome?

Resilience is formed by failure, not success. If we were consistently successful the first time we tried to do something, we would never need to build the resolve necessary to battle through adversity.

There’s nothing wrong with taking on challenges that are too big for us. Doing so leaves us with tangible space between what we are and what we would like to be. That is space we can grow into. The fact that today’s version of us wasn’t able to find success does not mean that tomorrow’s version will fail, unless we let today’s failure cause us to quit.

Lean into failure. Let it be a stimulus and inspiration. Be willing to put in the work needed to turn failure into success. Use failure to provide feedback that will tell you exactly where growth needs to occur. Tomorrow is another opportunity to convert failure into success. You’ve done that before; you are worthy of this journey.