{"id":26013,"date":"2018-07-06T18:57:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hmtemp.wondermediahosting.com\/?p=26013"},"modified":"2018-07-06T19:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T19:01:25","slug":"congratulations-on-your-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/congratulations-on-your-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations on your Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this post over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/girltribegang\/\">Girl Tribe Gang Facebook<\/a> page a few weeks ago and it really resonated with me. &#8216;Congratulations on your failure&#8217; &#8211; it seems an odd sentiment, but it makes so much sense when you stop to think about it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26016 aligncenter\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/congratulations-on-your-failure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26016 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/congratulations-on-your-failure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/congratulations-on-your-failure.png 940w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/congratulations-on-your-failure-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/congratulations-on-your-failure-790x662.png 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>An Unlikely Role Model<\/h2>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not a big football fan, but I do like to watch England play. I remember watching the England Germany semi-final in Euro &#8217;96. Gareth Southgate&#8217;s penalty miss made my heart, along with the nation&#8217;s, break for him. He was a failure on an epic scale, the world was watching and he failed. Imagine that feeling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26014\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26014 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TELEMMGLPICT000004538217_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqH4D-jx1ezwmwmru7Y7fiEwWTW7l5uqVSlEv6zekPfSw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26014 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TELEMMGLPICT000004538217_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqH4D-jx1ezwmwmru7Y7fiEwWTW7l5uqVSlEv6zekPfSw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TELEMMGLPICT000004538217_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqH4D-jx1ezwmwmru7Y7fiEwWTW7l5uqVSlEv6zekPfSw.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TELEMMGLPICT000004538217_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqH4D-jx1ezwmwmru7Y7fiEwWTW7l5uqVSlEv6zekPfSw-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TELEMMGLPICT000004538217_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqH4D-jx1ezwmwmru7Y7fiEwWTW7l5uqVSlEv6zekPfSw-790x494.jpeg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript> Gareth Southgate in Euro &#8217;96<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And as I watched England on Tuesday night take their penalties against Columbia I muttered it to myself, &#8216;congratulations on your failure Gareth Southgate&#8217;. For however that penalty shoot out ended, it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered. He&#8217;d already used his failure to spur him on into great things. He is the England manager. He turned his failure on that night back in &#8217;96 into a success. The fact that he used it even further to push on his team to deliver where he had failed is even more testament to the man he is. &#8216;Congratulations on your failure!&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26015\" style=\"width: 968px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26015 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/southgate0407a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"681\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26015 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/southgate0407a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/southgate0407a.jpg 968w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/southgate0407a-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/southgate0407a-790x556.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/noscript> Gareth Southgate in the Russia World Cup 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Success comes from Failure<\/h2>\n<p>So this is just to say we all have a choice, whilst we can&#8217;t always change our failures into successes, we can use them to improve for next time. And as with everything in life, it&#8217;s not what happens to you &#8211; but it&#8217;s how you deal with it that counts.<\/p>\n<p>So next time you fail at something, give yourself a little pat on the back. I failed at this, I messed up, I did this wrong. Think about Gareth and the whole world watching him. And think to yourself, I&#8217;m going to use this to learn from and come back better and stronger.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s what you do with failure that counts. Failure is just the path to success.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/girltribegang\/photos\/a.1524633344235030.1073741829.1524051194293245\/1991595037538856\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Girl Tribe Gang<\/a>\u00a0 c\/o @FalonGerst for the original inspiration for this post.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26017 aligncenter\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harrogate-Mama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"283\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26017 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harrogate-Mama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harrogate-Mama.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harrogate-Mama-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.harrogatemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harrogate-Mama-790x553.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this post over on the Girl Tribe Gang Facebook page a few weeks ago and it really resonated with me. &#8216;Congratulations on your failure&#8217; &#8211; it seems an odd sentiment, but it makes so much sense when you stop to think about it. 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