Grit and success
Honda has done it. They have hit the nail exactly on the head with their latest ad campaign entitled, “Unstoppable Dreams.”
I’ve always posited that failure is the key to success, and that if we use our failures to learn, we can turn them into the greatest achievements.
Honda has used a reverse poem format to illustrate how personal setbacks can be powerful in pushing us to achieve our dreams, and that how we respond to failure is simply the starting point to reaching the pinnacle of our success.
The poem is as follows:
You won’t remember my name
This is the last time
You will see me at the top
My doubts
Will destroy
My dreams
The more I seem to learn
The more I seem to lose
I want to carry on
But not today
This is the point I give up
Presented in this order, this poem is a very disheartening story of someone who has lost all hope. However, read it the other way and it is an inspiring story of grit and determination:
This is the point I give up
But not today
I want to carry on
The more I seem to lose
The more I seem to learn
My dreams
Will destroy
My doubts
You will see me at the top
This is the last time
You won’t remember my name
If you let failure define you, it is likely that the first way you read the poem will be the end of your dreams.
But, if you take a moment to grieve your failure and
then determine to learn and grow from it, success is still within your reach.
As our Dogies wrap up their fall sports seasons and look to the winter, hopefully they will adopt this mind-set and reflect on whatever
failures they experienced
and use them to become stronger, smarter and more dedicated to the seasons
to come.