Soul Sustenance

Defining Failure 

Given below are some definitions of failure: 

• Depending on your perception: failure actually does not exist. 
• Staying stuck in what you could have done and haven't done. Letting your though patterns to be influence by the same. 
• Experiencing emotions of frustration, pain, suffering. 
• Losing your notion (idea) of the dream, of the ideal life you want to lead. 
• Not fulfilling set expectations. 
• Not having enough courage and bravery to walk through life. 
• Not being the ruler of your thoughts, feelings, actions and life in general. 
• Allowing yourself to be led by something negative that a particular situation causes. 
• Distancing yourself from your values. 
• Not being in harmony with your inner conscience (while performing actions). 
• When the self does not accept what life brings it. 
• Putting your life in the hands of, and blaming, others and circumstances with feelings of emptiness and confusion. 
• False expectations. 
• Excessive attachment. 
• Excessive materialism. 

Tomorrow we shall discuss some factors that bring us closer to failure.