The difference between failure and success...

What is the difference between failure and success?

Listening, course corrections, and perseverance

Did you ever play the "hot" and "cold" game as a child? Or perhaps, depending upon where you grew up, you called it something different.

The game goes like this: one person in a group is drawn away from the group and taken to a place where he/she is not able to see or hear what is going on in the other area. While that person is away, an object is hidden. Everyone in the room knows where the object is, but the person who was lead away does not. After the object is hidden, the person is brought back in with the purpose of trying to discover where the hidden object is. The people in the room can only give two clues: hot and cold. The closer to the object the person gets, the more people shout out "HOT". The farther away the person gets, the more the word "COLD" is shouted.

If you have ever seen one of these games in action, it can be a lot of fun. Chaos is likely, laughter is definite and at any given time, people can be shouting both "hot" and "cold" all at once. It's wild. It's truly hard to know exactly what direction to go in if you are the one searching for the hidden object. The goal seems illusive at times. You get conflicting information. You find yourself turning in circles. Sometimes you get frustrated and other times you just have to laugh. At some point, you'll start to hear "hot" more than cold and you'll alter your path until you have everyone shouting "HOT" at the top of their lungs. Eventually you find the hidden object because you listen to what is going on around you, you make the appropriate course corrections and you don't give up.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

If you want to achieve the goal, you have to be willing to hear negative feedback, make corrections to your course and be persistent.

Why is it that when we do this as a game, it's fun and when we do it in real life, it's work? ;)

~Carla