Ep 84: Bouncing Back From Failure

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, even when you have every single tool in your toolbox, and you still fail or fall short making whatever you set out to do a reality, it’s hard not to question yourself. Why you’re working towards making your impossible goal, possible. You can't help but ask yourself if you’re good enough. If you’re cut out for it. If it’s worth it. Or if the disappointment and hurt are worth trying again.

And the answer doesn’t always have to be a resounding, "Yes!". Here’s the value in having the courage to crash and burn after giving 100%: Eventually, you'll crawl out of the hell hole you find yourself in with a completely different outlook. You know how hard you can work. You know what it felt like to doubt yourself and prove yourself wrong. You see the power of hard work and persistence. And most importantly, you learn firsthand that anything worth doing isn't just going to be hard, but takes a hell of a lot of time, patience, and persistence.

Bouncing back from failure isn’t something you can do overnight. I don’t care how many Pinterest quotes you put onto your vision board, you can’t fight through the fog or pull yourself out of the shame cave until you’re ready. You can’t force yourself to move past it. When you’re ready to take the next step, you’ll know. And you’ll be able to see what you can do differently a hell of a lot more clearly.

The only way you'll fail is if you fail to try. I truly believe that. Not every day is going to be the one you worked for. But as long as you keep putting one foot in front of the other, anything is possible.

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0:00.0	Oh my goodness. I just ate a bunch of peanut butter pretzels and that's probably the worst thing that you can eat before trying to record a podcast. But on that note, hi everybody. Welcome to episode 84 of the Run Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life with the side of running. My name is Kelly Roberts and today, well, today actually is a very special day because today is October 11th
0:24.0	if you're not listening on October 11th which you won't be because that's impossible but when I recorded
0:30.3	this today for me is International Day of the Girl a day devoted to shining a light on not just
0:36.7	how to work towards equality worldwide but all of the girl, a day devoted to shining a light on not just how to work towards
0:37.8	equality worldwide, but all of the injustices that women endure around the world. And it's
0:43.9	interesting, it's been interesting reading all these articles about sports and how sports help
0:48.8	girls build self-confidence and drive and ambition. And it's really interesting to look at that because for me,
0:55.7	I was never athletic. I didn't play sports growing up. I spent the majority of my time actively
1:00.6	trying to avoid being active. And it was in a moment of what felt like pure desperation that I
1:08.4	started running at like 24 years old. I was really desperate to
1:12.0	find something that gave me a way to feel really just something to feel proud and accomplished
1:17.1	about. I was drowning in self-doubt, grief and fear. Running has, it's helped me put the first
1:24.5	steps towards believing in myself. And even though it's only been four years since I've
1:29.4	been running, I feel like so much has happened. I don't feel like so much has happened. So much has
1:34.8	happened. And I can't help but wonder what it would have been like if I could go back in time
1:39.7	and not just do theater. But I say that because I wouldn't give theater up in acting
1:46.2	for anything, but I wonder what would have happened if I was both a runner and an artist.
1:51.3	Because in theater, I never doubted myself. I've been doing it forever and it was the thing
1:55.8	that not only brought me an incredible amount of joy and purpose, but it, but challenge. And even though it was challenging,
2:03.4	I never doubted my abilities to show up, be seen, and push myself and try really difficult
2:08.9	material and investigate and play. I was open to every single task at hand, but I knew I could do
2:16.0	whatever challenge presented itself.
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