In the sport of Archery, the distance from the bull's eye to where your arrow hit is called the sin. Thereafter, the definition of sin expanded to be used to describe wrongs of a religious type. This article is about missing your targets.
Inevitably, you will miss a task, not hit a milestone, or perhaps even quit the goal. Perhaps even the direction is being questioned. Here's what you can do.
When you come upon a missed goal, or a missed deadline, resist all impulse to turn incident into drama. Unless you set a vocationally-based goal and are an airline pilot or surgeon, keep everything in perspective. Obviously, the first thought should be, "do I get a retry?" The second and more painful question should be, "what went wrong?", not in the spirit of "blamestorming", but rather to review your process. Be honest with your evaluation, if even only to yourself. Then get back up and Gambatte (keep going in Japanese)!
An important question I ask myself is: "Does my lifestyle make the goal easy, if not inevitable, or difficult, or postponable?" Was I my own enemy? If so, how? What other things could I have done to make it easier? It is a tragedy that people ignore their weakness (success has many fathers, and failure is an orphan); I believe weaknesses are where you can learn most about yourself. Don't confuse activity with accomplishment, or change with progress.
TALKERS AND DOERS
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."- Theodore Roosevelt
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour (Prov. 21:25).
Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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