Failure is something most individuals will avoid at all costs – many times an action is not even attempted due to a fear or thought around the perceived lack of success of that action. Yet if we stop and think more on the subject, we all understand failing is a part of success. Let me provide a couple of examples - how many times does a baby fall down before they learn to walk, and later run? The Olympic marksmen of today didn’t always hit the bulls-eye when they started learning to shoot many years ago – did they? The baby in my first example does not know that “falling down” is a “failure to walk”. No, they may laugh and giggle with an “oops”, or perhaps cry if they fell down hard, but they get back up to their standing position and try it again. They already have had success moving from the crawling stage and now are working on the ability to navigate on two feet. As we grow in years, we understand that it hurts when we fall off our bicycle, if we don’t study enough or don’t understand an assignment in school we may fail the test, or even the grade.