A Hard Loss

Well, it’s football season again and our team (my son’s high school) lost its 1^st game this past weekend. This was a hard loss. It was hard because we were the better team but we still lost the game to an in town rival.

Have you ever suffered a hard loss in your life? No promotion although you were the more qualified applicant? The sudden death of a “healthy” loved one? A job loss due to no fault of your own? A close relationship that ended with no reasonable explanation? A chronic disease diagnosis with no known cure? I’m sure there are many others that you can identify with.

So what do you do after a hard loss? You use it to motivate you to keep moving forward or step up (remember last week's post-smile). Don’t get stuck focusing on the loss instead search for what you gained from the loss. Gather the good from it and use the experience to make you better as you move forward or even up. I’m willing to bet that what you gain in the next “game” will be far better than the loss of the previous one.

Remember…Sister U Matter!®