The Sausage 5k was today.
I was signed up for it.
I didn’t go.
I wasn’t prepared to walk or run 5k. I’m that badly out of shape. I had plenty of time to train for the event, and I did not do that.
This is the point of course, where I should go off on how it’s not my fault. How my family didn’t raise me right. How my gym doesn’t have convenient-enough hours. How I’m working long hours and commuting long hours.
That’s not what I’m going to do.
I failed. I failed badly.
It’s through failing, and recognizing that I failed, that I can improve. Sticking my head in the sand and ignoring the problems that led to this failure won’t allow them to be fixed. Not coming up with a new goal won’t give me something else to shoot for.
And there’s a chance that I’ll fail that new goal. At which point I’ll have new lessons to learn, until there are no more lessons to learn. Failing is the best way to learn. I’d rather fail than not try.
So, what are you going to fail at next?