Celebrating Failure

This past semester, or the whole summer for that matter, I set goals to try and hit the gym at least 3 times a week. Less courses over the summer would give me more time to focus on other interests I had. Unfortunately, getting to the gym even twice a week was pretty challenging. Let’s face it, getting to the gym either early in the morning or late after work or school can seem overwhelming since all we want to do is rest a little more.

This was partially my case, working a full-time job and trying to stay on top of the school assignments left a limited amount of time to get to all of my interests. Another part of the issue to get to the gym frequently was my lack of effort to get to the gym. There are a couple ideas behind why we sometimes just push away the chance and take the easy way out. This lack of effort can come from being exhausted, it can also come from not having a “workout buddy”.  It’s a lot easier to make it to the gym when you have someone else to share the experience with, otherwise, the gym can start to become a boring routine.

Recently, I’ve made progress with the gym and my weekly routine but school is about to start back up and I’m having to rearrange my schedule again. Throughout this summer experience, I learned that personal ambition and drive can have a huge impact to your goals. The reason for my recent success with the gym is because of this ambition; some other people talk about making the gym a daily routine and eventually they feel uncomfortable when they don’t make it. I believe this to be true, now whenever I don’t make it there, I feel uneasy and have to make the extra effort to get the workout done. I’ve also learned that changing your workout routine exercises every few weeks helps keep the drive for the gym going.

Failure can be a difficult circumstance to overcome and it shows itself in many different ways. Some are very easy to deal with while others can literally change a person. These failures are obstacles that help us grow into the person we are today; without these, we would find ourselves in very stressful situations and not knowing the right way out. Luckily, I’ve been graced with having a lot of patience and therefore whenever I’m faced with failure, I take the situation slowly and try to figure out the best solution for the next time the problem comes up. This method has helped me change both emotionally and behaviorally.

This class has helped me see failure through a different scope. Through the beginning, I had missed a few assignments and it left me thinking on possibly dropping this class but I took things slow and looked over the entire semester’s assignments and found my reprieve. I’m thankful for this but I am still not looking to take any risk in other classes I have in the future, it’s a rare situation I found myself in but I’m not willing to take another risk such as this one.