If You Have Failed Over And Over Again You Need To Continue Reading This Page Because It Just Might Change Your Life!
For your information, success is going from failure to failure, without losing your enthusiasm. God’s plan for us is to soar like an eagle. However, before we succeed, we might have failed.
Failure occurs in every aspect of our lives. Children fail, young people fail, adults fail, leaders fail, administrators fail, the rich fail and likewise the poor. In fact, failure is common to all. Successful people experience failure almost as often as unsuccessful people. In fact, on the average, successful people fail two out of five times they attempt something and unsuccessful people fail three out of five times. The fact is that there is no one person who does not experience failure. We all fail often. We don’t just fail once and walk gingerly through life so that we will never fail again. Failure is something that we experience everyday. Do you know that we will continue to fail until we die? Death itself is the only thing that is going to keep us from failing. Even those people that we thought had succeeded so much and could never fail again, alas they eventually failed.
Why is it that failure destroys some and builds up others? Why is it that failure is common to all? How can failure make us better people? How can failure be used as a stepping stone to success? How can we keep succeeding in life? There are many more questions that are going to be answered in this piece. So lets get started.
According to Robert Schuler, ‘failing doesn’t mean I’m a failure, it just means I have not succeeded yet. It doesn’t mean I have not yet accomplished nothing; it just means I have just learnt something. It doesn’t mean I have been a fool, it just means I have had the courage to take a risk, it doesn’t mean I’m inferior; it just means I am not perfect. It doesn’t mean I must give up, it means I must try harder. It doesn’t mean I’ll never make it, it just means I need more practice.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. The same truth holds for a woman and everyone. If you always think of failure, you will surely fail. If your thought is always on negative things, sooner or later you will experience failure. If you are fond of bad pictures in your mind, believe me, bad things will always happen to you. You better change your bad thoughts so as to have a change of life to success.
Too many people, when they fail, erect a monument to their failure and spent their lives paying homage. Not enough of us view failure as a moment – a fleeting experience. Do you make a monument when you fail, or do you look at it as just something that happened in a moment and is over and donw with? Charles Kettering said; ‘Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Repeated failures are fingerpost on the road to achievement. The only time that you don’t fail is the last time you try something and it works. One fails forward’. I like the expression, ‘fails forward’. Fail forward towards success.

People make monuments out of their mistakes, like saying things like, ‘I tried it and it didn’t work’. They said it couldn’t be done, and they were right. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are contended with your failure’.
What else do people put on their monuments to failures besides, ‘I tried it and it didn’t work’ and they said it couldn’t be done? How about ‘I wish I had done that? There are people who spend their whole lives wishing instead of getting out and doing. They never venture into the arena of action; they sit sadly on the sidelines and wish.
Others say, “I’ll never get hurt again”. They stay so far away from anything that is risky that life will pass them by. They’ll see the joy of the risk takers, but they won’t share in it.
Thomas Edison was once experimenting in search of a natural rubber. In his search he had 50,000 failures. His assistant said, ‘Mr. Edison, we have made 50,000 experiments, and we have no results’. He was ready to quit. He viewed failure outwardly. Edison replied, “Results” we have made wonderful results. We now know 50,000 things which won’t work’ Thomas Edison knew that there was only one thing that was failure and that was quitting.
Too many people fail, and then they never use that failure to their benefit. There is such a thing as a successful failure. Any time you have learnt from a mistake, you have made a major step towards success.
Your best is yet to come. Why are you cast down? Why are you discouraged or depressed? Why do you think you have failed? Do not write yourself off and do not let anyone write you off. Things at times have to become worse before improvement emerges. It is always dark before dawn breaks. Thus, rise up, look up and move forward. Start again, do it all over, for it is not over until it is over.