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Ever felt like this?

Today I happened across a video showing a halftime celebration honoring the 1991 NBA Champion Chicago Bulls. (awesome video. totally worth checking out)

While watching I was transported back into the days of my youth watching Michael Jordan and the Bulls and just knowing in my soul that I was going to be a basketball star.

I was so passionate about the sport that I even used to sleep with my basketball in the bed with me. (don’t judge me) I really thought that I would make it to the NBA.

To make a long story very short, that didn’t happen. It was an early experience with failure that was devastating for me at the time.

I was reminded that me and failure go back like Lazer Tag and Alf reruns. I don’t say this as a source of pride. (trust) And each failure at the time felt like the end of the world as I knew it.

Along the way there have been other equally devastating experiences with failure that have helped to shape and define my life.  I now realize more or and more that More >