Little Light Bulbs

“There is light at the end of every tunnel. To get there, just follow the silver lining.” 

― Anthon St. Maarten

A couple of days ago, I watched a video where someone spoke about how she has a failure threshold she sets for herself on a daily basis. She explained that if she did not fail up to five times at five things then her day passes as a good one. This made it easy for her to always bounce back from a setback or failure.

Daily, we are fighting for our lives. Setting goals, hitting some, missing others. Writing tests, seeing discouraging results, and sometimes it's hard to see the beautiful "light" that lies ahead. The goal that makes all the work worth it.

In the midst of the negatives, it just might provide the encouragement you need when you look out for that one thing you did well in a test, that one thing you did well in a semester, that one thing you did well in a day. It can't all be bad, can it?

Holding on more tightly to your achievements than your failures can give you motivation. Instead of hyperfixating on them, learn from your failures. Take another leap; dare to restrategize. Assess what you did wrong and how better you can do things.

A good attitude to failure is to magnify your wins, however small they are. Put little light bulbs as you go along in the dark tunnel. Make the journey fun and exciting. Celebrate every win. Keep hope alive. Before you know it, you'll be closer than you think to the light at the end of the tunnel, and most importantly, you'd have enjoyed the journey through because you lit the path for yourself.

Written by Boluwarin Shalom Iyanuoluwa (Shalom B.)