Brogan's Blog

Is the glass half full or half empty? I’ve heard that expression a thousand times in my 38 years. I bet you have too. So what’s the answer? Well, technically the glass is always full because half of it is filled with water and the other half is  filled with air. And that’s the way I like to think about things in life. In fact I should just be grateful I have a glass and something to drink! So much of life is how we choose to perceive things. And yes we have a choice. We can choose to find the negative parts of a situation or we can choose to find the positive. Choosing to see the negative has no benefit to you, so why not look for the positive, silver lining in everything? For instance, I am going thru some hard times right now. My 10 year long marriage is coming to an end. Now I can look at this and try to find every little negative part of this or I can choose to see the good that could come from it. The growth that will come from this could be amazing. Sounds crazy I know, but s...

  Lately, I’ve come to this conclusion. Life is full of failures! I am going to fail and continue to fail throughout my life. But, it doesn’t matter if I fail. What matters the most is how I handle that failure. Do I stand, up brush my self off and try again? Do I learn from my past mistakes that lead to the failure and grow from it as a person? Or do I lay down and just give up? That’s the point of my life I find myself in now. In my mind these past couple weeks I have been feeling like a failure. My marriage was not successful and now I find myself going thru a separation. It’s really not fair to myself to label myself as a failure because of this, but the thoughts are there nonetheless. So how do I respond to this situation? I could stay down, feel sorry for myself and just do what I gotta do to get by. What I’m going to do though, is pick my ass up off the ground and try again. And this time, with a little more wisdom from the bruises of past fails. That’s right, failure only l...