Secrets of Success for Teens: Failure

If you've watched the news lately you can't help but see that former American Idol failure Jennifer Hudson is everywhere. I say failure because in our society we seem to only focus on the one who wins. We easily lose interest in only but the most visible 'winners' - the top athletes, the supermodels, the Paris Hiltons of the world. And we often feel like losers because we don't measure up to them.

It's really kind of crazy when you think of it. There's only a few of them and there's a lot of the rest of us. Why do we put ourselves down because we don't look like them or have the imagined life that they have? But so many of us do...especially teens.

Jennifer Hudson...she's not pencil thin, she didn't win American Idol. But she didn't give up on herself. I certainly don't know the whole story of what she did with her career after Idol but she's now a Golden Globe nominee for best actress for "Dream Girls" after auditioning many times. One door closes...as Meredith Vieira says in her blog (see link)...and another door opens...

Let's make sure we're not so busy looking at that closed door...what we don't have in our lives...that we miss the incredible doors always opening ahead of us.