Ran across a quote from Vince Lombardi the other day. It read, “Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a real loser.” This made some sense with me as I look around my world at people accepting failure like an everyday occurence and moving on without a second thought.

There is nothing wrong with failing…everyone does it. I’ve done it, you’ve done it, and we will both continue to do it. However, there should be something inside all of us as humans that makes us never want to fail again. There should be a burning sensation in your gut that makes you work harder and harder until your failures have dwindled down to the bare minimum.

There’s nothing better than succeeding, and there’s nothing worse than failing. That’s my view on things. When I succeed a smile is put on my face and I find myself looking forward to my next victory. When I fail, on the other hand, I find myself working to make sure I never experience it again. Obviously I do experience it again, but that does not deter my drive to try to make it stop.

The world today is so akin to mediocrity, and it sickens me. There could be extraordinary things happening in society today if we weren’t so afraid of failure. What’s worse is that the outside world does not help. When a person fails, we fill their lives with scorn and shame instead of doing the right thing and lending a helping hand.

Failure mustn’t be an option, in anything. There’s got to be a better option. And once you accept losing, you are branding yourself a loser forever. Losing should spark something…something deep inside of you that makes you determined not to lose the next time. So, go out into the world, and make the old Coach proud.