"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." — Maya Angelou

There probably isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t face some disappointment, setback, or failure.  Life is full of them for sure.  Some have more or create more of these than others, but the key is that we all have them.  For the longest time I didn’t spend my time learning from these mistakes and failures.  I usually spent it feeling sorry for myself, blaming other issues, but you know what – deep down inside, I knew I had more to do with than I was letting on.

It took me many years to see the value of those failures.  The lessons in defeat are many and like I always tell my basketball players throughout the years – there are many more valuable lessons to learn from losses than there are from winning.  Now that I know that – it’s beginning to make a difference in my life.  I look back and wonder sometimes if I had picked this up earlier in my life… how things would be much better or at least different. 

It’s one of the things that helps a sports team to become great or an athlete too – but the same is true for all of us.  If we can bounce back, get up, grow & get better from the setbacks we have in life – we will become better for sure.  This holds true at work, at home, with our family and with other people too. They key is to learn early in life.  Learn early and often is the key.  As time goes on, it does get better for us.  Just think of the possibilities 😊