Last night I watched the New Orleans Saints acutally win the Super Bowl. Unfortunately as much as I enjoyed myself and I did. I missed my Dad. My dad played ball for a while and was a fabulous quaterback he hold many of the records that may have been broken in the Super Bowl last night we are not sure yet. He holds the record for the longest run in Louisiana football history for a touchdown by a quarter back and the longest pass ever recieved and run in for a touch down. And several other minor records. This morning he will be taking a tons of radio calls on how he saw the game and what he feels like being almost 75 and holding the records for so long. He is entertaining and gregarious and full of information but not full of himself. So I am sure he will be charming and have a ball. All of this hulabablu got me thinking… how have we as a family and we as a nation learned to handle failure. When you are striving for success and working hard at anything, do you have the ability to bounce after you are shot down, knocked down or knocked out?
As a nation we have not been taught how to fail with grace and know that nothing is failure unless we quit. Nothing. I noticed on last night’s game that once the clock hit forty seconds and the Colt’s had no way of winning they all just stopped the game. Well that is not good sportsmanship, children watching cannot be taught you just quit. But it is a common thought now days. In order to begin over you must finished what you started. So this led me to thinking about the fourth lesson in Manifesting Miracles and how we respond to failure. You receive a ton of accolade just because you win at something. But it doesn’t always mean you learned the most or you will retain the most life lessons. I love football. And no matter how much I wanted the Saints to win Peyton Manning played damn good football and if he would have stayed in that game last night the Colts just might have won. But he didn’t. They also gave the most valuable player of the night to Bree’s he won the game so enjoy. But who played the hardest and who gave that game the push Peyton. I bet we see him in another Superbowl and this time he won’t sit out two quaters he is magic out on that field. Here is my point. In football like in life sometimes we learn the most out of our fears or our failures. Did the Colts fail last night.. not on your life. The played one hell of a game. They didn’t win but they were great. Now what can we learn from them.
First we need to pause and access our failures, lick our wounds and re-group. What have we learned in the past six weeks of the new year that can lead us to victory in our personal Superbowl challenges. What have we done that sunk our efforts? In that vision notebook it would be a good time to re-group see where things are going well and where things can be improved upon. Are we sitting on the sidelines afraid of failure or injury or illness getting in the way of what we want for our lives? I know I have procrastinated a few challenges over little stupid things. Why have I not shot the first pilot of Callie Cooks! for our local station the time is paid for and the means and ability are there. The truth ten pounds… now is that so stupid. I want to be my skinny self on the new cooking and lifetime show.. What if Julia Child heaven help her was afraid to look less than perfect on t.v. we would have no French Chef, she would have stopped her own progress. I have not advertised BasicMissons as much as I should and I have been overwhelmed with life which is a form of procrastination and not posted on Callie Cooks! as I should have. So I haven’t the readership I should nor the number I should. When BasicMissins began it had high readership and much higher hits. So I am re-building I took my eye off the prize and stood back from the internet for a while to help folks who came thru the missions. I have learned a lot of valuable lessons in how I have lived my life since opening the mission and now turning it into a global initiative for change. So I do not regret my decisions. It just means I must gather up both victories and failures and reboot.
The question is how are you letting life get in your way.. are your fears of failure stopping you. Our most celebrated people on the planet have failed for more than they have suceeded so don’t get down when something goes array. I learned early in cooking school that learning from your mistakes and why something fails is as important as learning from your victories..so let”s get moving.
My new saying will be… I can do anything and the Saint’s won the Superbowl for the next year. Congratulations Saints and thanks for the lesson in perseverance against all adversity. And as a native Louisiana .. you did a damn fine job!!! And Hell did not freeze over!
So Go Saints and Go Friends… the year is young and we have not yet begun to fight.
Callie