In today’s episode, we explore an encouraging insight from the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill that reminds us how to navigate life’s highs and lows. Following this mindset can help us to find purpose and meaning in our successes and failures, and move forward with renewed motivation and determination.
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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
Speaker:Once again, welcome aboard to the daily podcast.
Speaker:Hope you liked yesterday's episode.
Speaker:Talk a lot about faith and the belief necessary to move
Speaker:ourselves forward in life.
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Speaker:Right?
Speaker:A lot of darkness, it seems.
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Speaker:and faith and inspiration can really help people get moving.
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Speaker:I want to focus on a quote from Winston.
Speaker:Churchill, one of the greats, the British wartime prime minister,
Speaker:but years ago, I read a 700 page biography of Churchill's life.
Speaker:And it's really interesting.
Speaker:I mean, he was one of those, you know, Fascinating figures of history, right?
Speaker:Like just his life, like a lot of childhood trauma and rejection and just.
Speaker:You know, a lot of stuff that today would basically have you in a corner, rocking
Speaker:back and forth for a long period of time.
Speaker:We're very therapeutic culture now.
Speaker:The focus on, you know, many of the challenges that you know of childhood
Speaker:and stuff has become a big thing.
Speaker:Uh, Be careful what I say here, but you get my point, like
Speaker:previous generations often.
Speaker:Didn't address.
Speaker:A lot of things that they went through.
Speaker:And I guess the criticism you.
Speaker:Was it a manifestor different ways, but.
Speaker:You know, there's also people like Churchill who had
Speaker:very difficult backgrounds.
Speaker:Didn't seem to get a lot of help with it.
Speaker:And it ended up manifesting in these remarkable lives, you know, not
Speaker:perfect lives, but, but, you know,
Speaker:They managed to come from a lot of setbacks and adversity.
Speaker:You know, he, uh, he was the author really of the Dardanelles campaign.
Speaker:So he was, he, he, he got a lot of success very early in life, you
Speaker:know, in his twenties, he was, uh, appointed Lord of the Admiralty.
Speaker:And was responsible for the Dardanelles campaign.
Speaker:The
Speaker:Totally landings, which of course didn't go very well.
Speaker:And his career was kind of ended.
Speaker:There's a moment in the biography that I read, where he moves from Admiralty
Speaker:house, you know, one of the most.
Speaker:Exquisite buildings that had such a great history and he ended up.
Speaker:In a kind of tiny office, the size of a broom cupboard.
Speaker:And that makes it important for today's quite cause he says this success.
Speaker:Is not final.
Speaker:Failure is not fatal.
Speaker:It is the courage to continue that counts.
Speaker:One more time.
Speaker:Success is not final.
Speaker:Failure is not fatal.
Speaker:It is the courage to continue that counts.
Speaker:So we are a culture that's kind of success fixated, right?
Speaker:We get so fixated on the idea of celebrity and success and glamour and fame.
Speaker:It's a very strong cultural force in our lives, and there's a.
Speaker:Isn't it, you know, the concept of having made it someone's arrived.
Speaker:They've made it they've, they've had that breakthrough moment and there's a sense
Speaker:that then their life is set forever.
Speaker:And often isn't it true that we see some people who experienced great success.
Speaker:And then ended up blowing up their lives.
Speaker:So no success is final, right?
Speaker:It's not like we ever arrive in this life.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:In the same way.
Speaker:Failure is also not fatal.
Speaker:Failure can be crushing.
Speaker:Failure can be embarrassing.
Speaker:Failure can be.
Speaker:You know, so disconcerting, but it's not as, as Churchill
Speaker:says here, it's not fatal.
Speaker:You don't die from failure.
Speaker:You know, you don't, you can be crushed by it and it can be very unpleasant.
Speaker:But you don't drop dead because you failed at something.
Speaker:I'm not minimizing that we don't enjoy failure.
Speaker:We definitely don't enjoy it when it happens.
Speaker:But he finishes by saying that it's the courage to continue that counts.
Speaker:So, no matter how much success is in your life, no matter how
Speaker:much failure is in your life.
Speaker:Neither of those are as important as the courage to come from
Speaker:either of those polarities, right.
Speaker:To come from success or failure and to keep moving forward.
Speaker:The courage to get up and just keep walking towards what significantly.
Speaker:What is the significant and important do you think about yesterday's message?
Speaker:We talked about faith.
Speaker:That faith is this ability to keep moving towards something that hasn't arrived yet.
Speaker:To keep moving in faith towards it and Churchill saying today that what
Speaker:matters is the courage to keep going.
Speaker:So I'm talking to anybody today who is needing some courage to keep going.
Speaker:It could be in your career.
Speaker:It could be in your parenting, could be in your marriage or another relationship.
Speaker:There is no point of total success.
Speaker:There is no point of total failure.
Speaker:But there is always the invitation and the opportunity to find the
Speaker:courage to keep going for another day.
Speaker:We want to be intelligent about that.
Speaker:Of course, we don't want to just keep running into the same wall by manifesting
Speaker:the same behaviors in the same patterns.
Speaker:But there's something remarkable about the human journey and the human person
Speaker:that we have this ability to continue to persevere, to keep moving forward.
Speaker:All right so i want to be that voice of encouragement for you today success is
Speaker:not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts All right,
Speaker:that's it for me today go check out those links make sure you've subscribed books
Speaker:and coaching time my name's jonathan dog.
Speaker:god bless you everybody And i'm going to have another message for you tomorrow
