Sometimes you fail...Part 2

4. Sometimes you fail…then also recognize that you cannot affect another’s “place” or reaction within this project or failure. Just as you have a responsibility to do your best and the things that are right, so does everyone else involved. Own your piece of the failure and only your piece. “People can’t give you what they don’t have,” Liz Murray
5. Sometimes you fail…then separate failure of the task from you as someone made in the image of Christ. YOU are not a failure as a person. Speak this truth into your life.
6. Sometimes you fail…then have you sought forgiveness from those you failed? Did you seek to do your best and still let others down? Make amends, seek forgiveness, and move on.
7. Sometimes you fail…then ask yourself, “Did you make a difference in the life of another?” As a leader, our primary responsibility in leading others is to develop, grow, empower, and encourage others. Even in your failures, you can and do make an impact on another person and ultimately that’s the goal.

Every single leader sometimes fail whether in their own eyes or in the eyes of the public. We’re all too familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s nearly a dozen failures on his way to the White House.  So, when we leaders sometimes fail, do we ask ourselves the above questions and learn from our failures? Are there successes within our failures? History will tell.

Sometimes you fail. Then what? The first part…that’s a given. You will fail. The latter…that’s up to you. The “then what” … that’s what separates the leaders from the rest.



Today's Opportunity:

Sometimes you fail…when you fail today, go through the seven ”then what” steps above and answer them for yourself. That’s my task too.

On a final note…the ONLY true failure is when we fail to learn. That it failure!