“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
Mary Tyler Moore, actress
Being brave means you need to accept you will fail sometimes. And you will fail in life. That’s a fact.
True failure is when you actually quit trying. So, if you really want to succeed in life, you’re gonna have to face this fact you will fail.
It’s like teaching a horse to jump hurdles. You may get thrown off the saddle a few times at the beginning. And I’m sure it’s gonna hurt. Not only physically, but your pride may get a little dented too.
You have to be brave and get back up on the saddle, no matter how many times we get thrown off.
You have to be brave and get back up on the saddle, no matter how many times we get thrown off. Share on X~~~~~~~~End of five minutes~~~~~~~~
Eventually, we will be able to get a balance and realise we are riding without falling off anymore. The result of practicing being brave means being able to conquer any hurdle we need to get over.
Failing is not a bad thing
Through every failure you have in life, you learn something new – how not to do it in that way again. The trick to success, is to keep practice being brave. Get up off your arse and do it again! In the end, you will see you’re not on your backside anymore.
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I could learn Your statutes. Psalm 119:71
Are you in a situation where you are struggling to see how to get through it? I want to challenge you to keep on practicing being brave. If it goes wrong, get back on the saddle and try again. It will be worth it in the long run.
This was written for the Five Minute Friday Community, where a number of writers gather for a weekly writing challenge around a single word prompt and write to our hearts content, but only for five minutes (or there about! I have marked where my five minutes stopped).
This weeks word prompt is ‘practice’. Click here if you want to see what other people wrote. You can also have a go yourself. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘practice’?
