I like to win…at everything.
My desire to win fuels many of my choices including my choice of career and many of my leisure activities.
I actively seek out opportunities to win by playing to my strengths and avoiding my weaknesses.
However, this approach insulates me from much of the disappointment of losing. More appropriately, it actually often deprives me of that beautiful disappointment.
It is somewhat delusional to live a life where so many choices result in success, because it is primarily during those times of failure that I grow stronger and more resilient, prepared to make a wiser decision the next time around.
This weekend I stepped out of the echo chamber of wins and found myself disappointed. In that moment of disappointment, I saw past the negative emotion of letting myself down and instead had the clarity to see how beautiful the failure was, it was a reminder that sometimes I’m going to fall down, and that getting back up is its own reward.
Success without struggle tastes far less sweet. Embrace the beauty of disappointment, it means you’ve got room to grow…and that’s something we all need to remind ourselves about more often.