Can you remember when you learned the difference between a verb and a noun? A verb describes an action. A noun describes a thing.<\/p>\n
When we get these confused, the result can be disastrous!<\/p>\n
What is A Verb?<\/strong><\/p>\n For example, the company named Google has had such an influence in the modern world that people now refer to searching the Internet as “google,” “googling,” or “googled.” <\/p>\n It is almost as if we are using verbal shorthand to describe the action. <\/p>\n Instead of saying “I am searching the Internet using the Google search engine,” we say “I’m googling.”<\/p>\n I can understand why we abbreviate it…for good reason. And yet, the meaning is still conveyed.<\/p>\n What About When The Wrong Meaning Is Conveyed?<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes (actually more often than not), what we mean isn’t what the listener hears.<\/p>\n Take “negative self-talk” for example.<\/p>\n I can judge myself as being a failure<\/em> because I haven’t been perfect about writing weekly.<\/p>\n Or, I can see it as an opportunity for me to forgive myself and move to a more consistent pattern. <\/p>\n When Failure Stopped Being A Noun For Me<\/strong><\/p>\n It wasn’t until very recently that I was reminded that the word “failure” can be either a noun (how I’d been using it to apply to myself) or a verb.<\/p>\n When it sank in that I was allowing myself my beat myself up, I was finally able to decide to forgive myself and forget about my past errors.<\/p>\n Freedom Begins With Me<\/strong><\/p>\n What hit me the most was that I could choose to let go of the past instead of beating myself up about it.<\/p>\n I don’t know if you can imagine or understand the feeling of Freedom that overcame my heart when I allowed myself to forgive myself and choose to believe that failure is a verb.<\/p>\n And, as a verb, it can be a passing action.<\/p>\n Because it is temporary, it means that failure doesn’t have to define who I am or what I choose to do today or in the future. <\/p>\n And then… I realized…<\/p>\n It doesn’t even have to apply to me! In the Financial Industry, they have a disclaimer that says that the past performance does not guarantee future performance.<\/p>\n (The idea is that just because a stock had a 12% return last year, there is no guarantee that the return this year will be similar.)<\/p>\n And yet we act as if the way we were in the past has to be exactly how we are in the future.<\/p>\n We expect someone who was broke yesterday and is broke today to be broke tomorrow.<\/p>\n But it doesn’t have to be that way.<\/p>\n The Key To Your Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n My wish for you is that you allow yourself to believe that “failure” is a verb, especially when used to describe yourself.<\/p>\n May you come to the understanding that you hold the key to unlocking the future you now don’t even dare dream of for fear of being disappointed.<\/p>\n Dare to dream, my friend! 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\nPast Performance Does Not Dictate Future Results<\/strong><\/p>\n