As I was watching my favorite football team, the Cowboys (I am a native Dallasite, so I’m allowed to like them!), lose their first game of the season, it made me think about how a loss or a failure can actually be a good thing if we are willing to look at it as such.

First, once you stumble a bit, it just shows you’re human. Mistakes happen and the best thing we can do is learn from them. For the Cowboys, who’s game suffered from 12 penalties that cost them 100 yards, they are hopefully able to look back over the game and see things they could have done better or would do differently the next time.

In our business and in our life, we have to remember to play Monday Morning Quarterback not to feel remorse for mistakes, but to learn from them and simply do better the next time. When you win it feels good - a feeling you want to experience again. But you don’t necessarily grow or improve from that. Many times it takes failure as well as success to expand a business or to grow as a person. Embrace both and you’ll see what I mean!