Try Again!

Learning something new and making changes in your life can bring its challenges.

Are you yearning for improvement or growth?

Have you tried, failed, and then tried again?

Why me? Again?

Well, I don’t know ‘why you’. But, if it makes you feel any better, it happens to me too!

Sometimes, things just go wrong.

One of my favourite poems on this subject was written by William Edward Hickson

‘Tis a lesson you should heed–

Try again;

If at first you don’t succeed,

Try again.

Then your courage should appear;

For if you will persevere,

You will conquer, never fear,

Try again.

Once or twice though you should fail,

If you would at last prevail,

Try again.

If we strive, ’tis no disgrace

Though we did not win the race–

What should you do in that case?

Try again.

If you find your task is hard.

Try again;

Time will bring you your reward,

Try again;

All that other folk can do,

Why with patience should not you?

Only keep this rule in view,

Try again.

As we try, persevere, and help others to do the same.

“Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible—and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf.

Perseverance and not giving up is not some monumental, herculean act, it is simply a series of baby steps that you just keep taking, every day.

What do you need to keep trying at today?