To Succeed, I Must Plan to Fail

The sea seems much more placid now.  

I am going through the course, as I have decided and agreed with the world around me. I am calmly pursuing the goal I have set for me to take.

But one way I know I could make the grade is if I planned to fail....Now what on earth could I mean?

When we decide on a life course, we set up rules we can follow to keep us on track.  Now, it could happen that once we become unsuccessful, we are discouraged.  Say, for instance, a diet. Or a new year's resolution. Of course we make rules to stay with in, but when we break a rule, the diet's off. Or as they call it in the tradition of new year's resolutions, we backslide.

Instead, we ought to know that we could make mistakes, or a buddy could fail us, or obstacles can present themselves before us -  and we ought to know how to pick ourselves up when it happens.

I must embrace my fallenness and inadequacies.  Along the road, I have learned that, just as important as the success of each day, is the courage to start over before every fearful obstacle.  Before each time I fail.  

So, take a deep breath, brush the dirt off my hands and knees, straighten my clothes: the journey has begun.

There is no turning back.