Success Is Just The Recovery After Failing!
Quote Of The Day
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“The chief cause of
failure and unhappiness is trading what
you want most for what you want now!”
Zig Ziglar
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Okay, so you’ve been giving it your all. Well,
maybe not your "all", but a good portion of it. And
you’re not seeing any progress. So now what? Are
you doomed to failure and never to succeed? No!
Keep reading.
One
thing that you need to understand is that failure is
an event, not a person. It doesn’t define you as a
“loser” for the rest of your life—unless you let
it. Failure happens to you—it isn’t who you are.
You’re not a victim, but it also doesn’t define
you. So when it happens (notice I didn’t say “if”),
pick yourself up and get ready for the next event in
your life.
You
must adjust your attitude as you recuperate from a
failure. You will rise to your own expectations.
Psychologists call this a “self-fulfilling
prophecy,” and we are suckers to believe our own
words. So adjust your attitude to the positive side
of things.
Remember the guy who came up with the brilliant idea
to change Coke? Back in the 80s (for those of you
who were mere babes during that decade), someone had
a stroke of genius—or so he thought. The Coca Cola
company decided to compete more with Pepsi, and
changed the formulation of their signature
product—Coke.
They called it “The New Coke.” It bombed. No one
enjoyed the new taste and the calls were immediate
to bring back “the old Coke.” After a few months of
hemming and hawing, Coca Cola executives brought
back the original formula of Coke and ditched the
new stuff—and its creator.
So
what happened to the guy whose idea this was? He
left Coca Cola and began to look for new work. The
trouble was, his name was well known in the business
community and everyone connected him to the failure
that New Coke was. He finally landed an interview
in which he got a fair shake: the interviewer asked
what he had learned through the problems the New
Coke had created.
Naturally, he indicated that he had many lessons
learned from the fiasco. He didn’t let failure
define him, and he ended up landing the job for
which he was interviewing. Good for him, right?
But good for the company that hired him, too. They
were willing to take a chance on a creative
risk-taker who had a very public failure on his
record.
Many
of those who are considered to be “successful” have
had failures dot their lives. Rush Limbaugh, the
king of daytime talk radio, was fired multiple times
from different radio jobs. He also filed for
bankruptcy—twice. So you can see how Limbaugh
didn’t permit failure to define him. Those failures
were events from which he recovered and moved on.
And you should take the same tact when confronted
with something that didn’t turn out like you hoped
it would.
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When The Game Is Over by John Ortberg -
A promotion. A new house. The
rewards of winning in life can be thrilling.
But eventually everything, including us,
goes back into the box, and our ultimately
success depends upon whether we’ve played
according to rules of life. |
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