Failures Don’t Define You! I had interesting conversation with my wife this morning about failures and how many of us are hypocritical in our real-life application of positivity, mindset, grace or however you want to define a positive attitude. Most of us who are entrepreneurs, fitness enthusiasts, or just positive people like to cite the names of Abraham Lincoln, Ray Kroc, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Shania Twain, J.K. Rowling, and Colonel Sanders. We talk about all the obstacles or hardship they overcame to reach their iconic levels of success. In the real-world most of us don’t apply the same principles we like to espouse in our personal relationships. We fist bump, high-five, and hug, but in reality, we use other’s failures as a tool to define them. We all have personal failures. We miss a deadline, a project or endeavor fails, we miss our sales or business objective, or our ideas are rejected in the marketplace. These are all things people we consider icons of perseverance, determination, and success have experienced. But why are we hyper-critical of the personal failures of people in our friend circle? I think one reason is we overlap failure with character. Failures help to build character, but one’s character cannot be fully defined by failure. I want to always show others grace and encourage people in my circle to fail frequently, while knowing that failures are building character while they take another step closer to reaching their dreams of personal success. Don’t let failure define you and remember you are on your own personal journey. Colonel Sanders became a master chef when he was 40, franchised Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was 62, and became an icon when he sold his company at 75. Don’t define those in your circle by their failures. Encourage them to take another step, give them a hand up. There is always room on the list of iconic success stories. #failure #success #entrepreneurship https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpe-h0dBM3E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=75omiqvxp7gp