You leaped and you fell short.

You push through hesitation. You choose action over avoidance. You make the leap. Just like we talked about last week.

And you fall short.

This wasn't supposed to happen. It wasn't supposed to be like this. You leaped, you came up short, and you fell.

Not a small stumble. A real failure. The kind that makes you question whether you should be on this journey at all.

Now what?

The easy thing to do is conclude you shouldn't have leaped or shouldn't leap again. That's what so many people do when they fall. They think the gap was too wide, the goal was wrong, or they aren't capable. They treat a fall as proof that leaping was a mistake.

That, is the wrong lesson.

You can succeed in any test if all you do is imagine it. But when the tests are real, everyone fails at some point. Not because you're incapable but because you don't know what you need to know. The leap throws you into territory you don't understand. You fail.

Now you know something you didn't know before.

You couldn't have learned it any other way. Standing at the edge, calculating, preparing, waiting for certainty. None of that will show you the truth. Only leaping will reveal it. Only falling will teach it.

The fall reveals a gap you couldn't see before. Not just the gap in front of you. The gap within you. If you missed it, read: The Gap and The Leap.

It's a failure, not the failure. Which makes it more of a discovery than a failure.

You will leap. You will fall. You will learn.

You will leap again. And next time, you'll be different.

Make the leap. Do the work.