tripping over yourself

On my Monday night call a couple of weeks ago, we talked about how easy it is to trip over yourself once you have a failure in life. You can get caught up in the failure instead of learning from it and moving on. We have all heard that people who are the most successful are the people who learn from their mistakes. So, how can we become one of those people?

I compare it to learning to ski, which I did about a month ago. I learned the bunny hill, I did the beginner hill, and then I decided to try a more advanced hill. First of all, I bit off more than I could chew, which as far as learning from your mistakes is a big no, no. When you way over-shoot your knowledge, you're bound to fail rather largely and the potential for you to get frozen in your failure is huge. Once I was up to the top of a mountain in Santa Fe, I was committed. I started out ok, but then I faced a turn that I wasn't able to make and I started falling. I lost faith in my abilities at that point and then I just kept falling. I had totally psyched myself out.

This kind of failure can happen in any kind of situation. Let's say you start a business that you are really excited about. You present that business to the world and someone tells you it's stupid. You  start tripping over yourself. Some other people are excited  about you launching your business, but you just can't get the person who told you the business was a stupid idea out of your head.

With the skiing, I wound up taking off my skis and walking down the mountain. I admitted my inabilities to myself and then enjoyed the walk down. I figured it was better than winding up wrapped around a tree! I got down, took a break, then took a deep breath and went back to the beginner hill, which is what I knew I could do. I stopped falling and was no longer tripping over myself or psyching myself out. Next time I know I will be able to get to a point of going down a bigger mountain.

With the example of a business that you are tripping over, take a deep breath and go back and look at your strengths. Do you have enough knowledge to get started?  Do you have the passion to move through people who are telling you the business is stupid? If so, square your shoulders and go back to the business plan and move through the naysayers in your mind and in your life. Ask for divine assistance in healing what stands in your way of success.

Tripping over yourself is bound to happen. It's important to recognize when it is happening and stop for a moment. Acknowledge the things that started you tripping in the first place, whether it was a failure, a naysayer, or just a lack of ability. Ask for divine assistance in learning from what has been presented to you. With divine support, you will heal what is tripping you and release it so that you can open to success.