How to Improve Your Life By Failing

By

Desiree Future

I pray everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving. Many people visited with family and friends eating a ton of food. Others stayed at home watching movies all day, including me. I hope you had a wonderful time whatever you did or didn’t do.

I can’t believe that today is December 1, 2024. It seemed like just yesterday we were celebrating the new year. And now here we are stuffed from Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas. I’ll also be celebrating my birthday as well.

As I look back over the past several months and think of where I was one year ago, it’s surely different. My mindset was living in the moment for certain things. While with others it was advancing in my life.

Being grateful for the little that I had in my mind there was no need for more. So for me, there was no reason to change. Although I knew at some point I would have to do something different. The stubborn me  (as my late mom always called me) put it off.

With Christmas and my birthday several weeks away and my finances will not allow me to buy anything for myself. With my birthday only two days after Christmas, I’ve always made sure I purchased myself something. Whether it was a scarf, a new purse, or a book. I’ve done this since I was eighteen.

Some years were rougher than others but I made sure to get myself something. Years later I stand in the same predicament. Not because the bills are too high and the funds are too low. But because I was too comfortable with being comfy.

I knew good and well, that my current circumstances needed improving. However, instead of saving up to improve it, I ignored it instead. That is until I couldn’t put it off any further. So now here I am with my finances locked and loaded to better myself.

I’m slightly disappointed that I will not be able to go out to dinner and enjoy a discounted Broadway show. But this is something that I brought on myself. Just because you shove the mounds of errands in the closet doesn’t mean they’re going to go away.

The more you turn a blind eye to them the heavier the load gets. I say all of this to say take inventory of your life. Put things into perspective and see what needs attention and don’t wait to address it.

This is a lesson I surely learned from. It’s okay to fail but you can use your failures as your success.

What mistakes have you made that you’ve learned from?

Psalm 145:14: “The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down”