Comments on: what failures are you grateful for?

By: Celebrating Failure

Celebrating Failure — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:43:57 +0000

[...] failures we can be grateful for because they have lead us down a new and unexpected [...]

By: Freakin’ (Great Links) Friday: Installment 19 | When I Grow Up - The Blog

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:50:36 +0000

[...] If this post from White Hot Truth wasn’t so freakin’ good, I would have stolen this question for Tough (Question) Tuesday: What failures are you grateful for? [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:09:08 +0000

I had to do a million things perfectly wrong to get to where I'm at today, and for that I'm grateful.

Finding a place of gratitude out of all failure is truly a peaceful place to be. It's hard to name just one failure... failed out of school (now I'm finishing my MBA), failed a marriage (in Dec. I married my best friend on the island of Kauai), failed at sobriety over and over (last week I celebrated 3 years), failed at control (i turn my control over on a daily basis)... Life has simply gotten better and easier once I got out of the way.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:07:28 +0000

@Terrill..ific
"Failure is feedback" - that's great! Thanks!

By: Terrill..ific!

Terrill..ific! — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:20:35 +0000

Failure is just feedback. Feedback on life is good. I love the post and the story. With out failure there is no success. The Ying and Yang of Failure and Success. It sometimes takes a while to recover but there is ALWAYS another side to failure when you are ready to look at it.

By: alligator kate

alligator kate — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:33:36 +0000

I am grateful for discovering the limits to my compassion, because it has stopped me from being self-righteous. I am grateful for taking up smoking at 16 because it taught me that I was strong enough to quit, and also to know what it is to have an addiction. I am grateful for being let go from a job I loved and excelled at because it propelled me to work for myself, which I love even more.

By: Anne Sherwood

Anne Sherwood — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:39:26 +0000

On this a sweet St Patty's Day
I'm grateful for me failures
without them I'd be someone else
of an inauthentic nature!

By: kristen

kristen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:12:31 +0000

I am thankful for the failure of being the worst friend ever 10 years ago. It lead to a friendship " divorce" as we fondly call it now. When we reunited I truly knew what being a real friend meant....we both learned and are now a sisterhood.

By: jamie

jamie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:10:22 +0000

I'm totally with you, Danielle.

If my last relationship hadn't failed, I wouldn't be with the love of my life.
If I hadn't gone through the pain of rejection as a dancer, I wouldn't have the same passion for helping people reclaim their creative selves.
If I hadn't had to drop out of university the first time, I wouldn't have ended up on the wild, adventurous, personally evolutionary career path I've been on.

I think failure brings out the rebel in me :)

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:07:32 +0000

I was "asked to leave" my last job because I "made too many mistakes." While I am embarrassed to admit what happened, I'm also celebrating that it did happen because it was possibly the worst job I'd ever had and the worst person I'd ever worked for. That failure has taught me to really seek what makes me happy and for that, I celebrate it. Huzzah!