We all want to write a comeback story

​I was mindlessly scrolling Facebook last night when I saw these words a friend shared from The Female Hustlers FB page:

"To all the doors that closed on me: I'm coming back to buy the building."

I commented to her - those words just fired me up.

I think it's because we all love a good comeback story. Whether it's in the movies or your team makes a second half comeback or a sick friend or family member experiences a miraculous recovery. We all love a good comeback.

There are three different races I've run that I started and failed to finish. After each one of those failures, I've said I'm coming back. Some of them it was a year later, a couple of them a few years later, but eventually I did go back and finish what I'd started at all of them.

I'm convinced I felt more fulfilled at the finish lines of those comeback races than I would have felt had I finished the original attempts. I think it's because I knew I didn't HAVE to go back.

I knew I had a choice on the other side of those failures. I had the choice to be a move on story or a comeback story.

My friend's post last night was a timely reminder that on the other side of a closed door - on the other side of a setback or a failure or a lost opportunity - we get to choose the story.

We get to decide if we are going to walk away from that closed door, or if we're going to write a comeback story.

I think the reason we all get goosebumps and maybe tears in our eyes when we watch a good comeback story reach its exciting comeback finish - is we are all one way or another trying to make our own comeback.

Whether we are trying to make a comeback from a race or from a lost job opportunity or from a failed relationship or from our childhoods - we are all dreaming of our own comebacks.

When I read these words last night: "I'm coming back" - I was reminded just how powerful it is to say those words out loud.

It's Monday. It's the perfect day to decide you're coming back.

What door has closed on you in life?

What have you decided to do about that?

If it's a door that's important to you, don't settle for getting another chance to open the door - decide you're going back and buying the building.

Decide yours is not a moving on story, but a two thumbs up comeback story. Because we ALL love a comeback story.

Especially when it's our own.