Without failiure there can be no success

I'm feeling much better at work at the moment. My break for Glastonbury helped refresh me and I've been getting support from a colleague which has really helped me. However, recently something has come to light that is challenging to say the least.

I made a mistake at work and have got into trouble for it. The mistake was not entirely my fault and people are aware of that but I think that the powers that be needed to react and I was in the firing line. I'm putting my point across to them and defending myself. I'm not shirking responsibility for my actions, I made the mistake and I'm not trying to pass the blame or make excuses.

But I don't want to go into that side of things. What I wanted to say was that the whole episode, in someways, is actually quite a positive one.

I'm reading a book at the moment called 'The Greatness Guide' by Robin Sharma. It's 101 hints and tips to becoming a truly great person, both in your personal and business life. He talks a lot about failure and success and risks and mistakes.

Whilst obviously no one wants to fail, let people down or get into trouble, it has to happen. It is part of life. Failure is part of success. You can't have one without the other, just as you can't have life without death or light without dark or happiness without sadness. If failure didn't exist then success would not mean anything. You have to have the contrast.

I want to be a great person. I want to achieve my goals both in personal and work lives. I want to be a success. And I believe that I can be. Yes, I made a mistake but I'm now working incredibly hard to put things right.

And as Robin Sharma says, 'a mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice'.

Glastonbury

Last week I went to Glastonbury festival for the first time and I absolutely loved it.

I went with Stephen and some of his friends, who've been every year for the past six so I was with an expert. We camped next to the Other Stage so saw a lot of bands on there, we wandered through the Green Fields, lay in the Jazz World drinking strawberry cider, we played in Greenpeace fields, we soaked up the atmosphere, we got muddy, we got tanned (well, I got tanned, everyone else seemed to get burned!), we were happy.

It was such a great atmosphere and it was wonderful to experience these things with Stephen. My eyes were wide open the whole time, seeing new things and loving everything about it. We saw lots of good bands, I saw the four I definately wanted to see and some more. We introduced each other to new music, new worlds.

And after a few days it was time to come home, ready to face the world again. But it made it a bit easier, knowing that next year, we can escape to that field in Somerset again.