The plan for today was simple. Get up early, get into the office to crank out some work, run some errands, have lunch with a friend to talk about summer camp, come home and seal my deck. Simple…until I got to the deck sealing stage of the day when everything went wrong.

After spending a ton of time prepping to paint I started fiddling with my friend’s paint sprayer, it didn’t work. His solution, hit it with a hammer (but not too hard). Needless to say, no luck there. So, we (my dad and I) were off to Home Depot to rent (or buy) a sprayer. On the suggestion of the “home depot paint expert dude” we bought a pump sprayer that “should” do the trick. Nope! After 2 nozzles and about a million “tweaks” neither dad or I could make it do more than squirt splotches onto the wood. And so…my attempt at sealing the deck was an utter failure.

My response, I’ll try again.

I don’t enjoy failure, I sure didn’t enjoy today’s, but I have learned from it and I’m committed to overcoming it.

When failure comes, we must try again, as many times as it takes, until we get it right. After all, tomorrow’s another day, I’m just sayin…

1. Alece Says:
   June 19th, 2007 at 5:17 am

   Sounds like a frustrating day. Your positivity amidst the frustration is a good reminder…