I messed up big time yesterday.

Without going into the gory details, if there is no failure, only learning experience, then I just had one heck of a major course in learning experience.

It was the kind of goof that makes you go cold and your insides squeeze into a tiny knot. I can count the exact last time I felt that way, and it was back in ’03. That bad.

Now there is no failure, only learning experience sounds good on paper, but application can be tough.

But you know what made it much, much easier? My friends and girlfriend who rallied around me in my hour of need.

This is a big shout out to them, if nothing else than to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Without you, I would have been lost, and I am blessed to have each of you in my life.

And remembering what Ralph Waldo Emerson once said;

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Good advice.

I’m curious. Have you ever messed up major big time (it’s a pretty good bet everyone else ), and looking back now, what helped you bounce back up?