The Fitness - Life Crossover

 Reflecting on a failure can often be a good lesson if one does it properly. To just admit failure without learning why is a negative that will always remain as a bad feeling, but, if an assessment is made, it should turn to a positive.

Assessing Failure Immediately 

 How to assess a failure is a trait that must be learned, and though this should be taught in our school programming, it sadly isn't. Being truthful to oneself is an elementary character trait. Learning to be truthful can sometimes be difficult and is often disregarded due to the negative feelings it can provoke. People who live falsely in the 'positive mind set' tend to disregard failures and sweep them under a rug, while those of greatness embrace and search their failures for the err of their ways.

 Failure is a good thing, if one knows how to use failures to succeed. How many failures must Thomas Edison have had? If he failed, which he most likely did at everything that he made, and didn't analyze why the failure occurred, would he have gone on to invent so many things? The answer would be a resounding 'NO!' Mr. Edison kept trying, and analyzing each failure until he had success.

 This same concept can be applied to training. In a minute instance such as a single rep of a movement that failed, use your mind to decipher each detail and find the broken link - was my form good? Check. Was my rest time sufficient? Check. Is my nutrition on point? Check, and so on until the one little mistake, that one flaw is brought forth and identified, making sure that the next time it won't be that same thing to cause failure.

 Now this simple training analytical tactic can be pole vaulted into other areas such as work,  personality, relationships, efficiency, saving money, etc. Here is a concept that when practiced during physical exercise to proficiency builds the mind and character and that can make the big difference between failing and succeeding at everything. Go out and proudly fail at something today but be sure to give yourself some credit when that flaw is identified.