The Path to Success - Why failure Is Good For You#blogsabouthowtosucceed#blogsaboutentrepreneurs#businessadvice
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I hope you enjoy it. The next few posts will be very different, but for now, I hope you find my opinions on this subject useful!
How do you view failure? Do you see it as something
negative that you don’t want to be associated with or do you see it as
something positive? Most people in the world don’t like failure.
Fear of failure is the main reason why more than 80% of
people in the world are not prepared to change their circumstances. Why do
people fear failure so much? The reason for this is because people don’t
understand the dynamics involved in success and failure.
Everything we do in life has either a right way of doing it
and a wrong way of doing it. When we do it the right way we meet with success.
Needless to say that when we do it the wrong way we are unsuccessful.#storiesofhope
Remember the true meaning of Insanity is doing the same
thing, over and over again, and expecting a different outcome!#blogsabouthope
Understanding this is important because it puts failure in
its proper perspective and removes the fear around it.
When someone who doesn’t understand this dynamic meets with
temporary failure he gives up thinking that he is not good enough or that he
will never make it. But is this really what it is? Does the fact that you
didn’t make it the first time mean that you are not good enough? Does it mean
that you’ll never make it? Not at all! All it means is YOU HAVE NOT FOUND THE
CORRECT METHOD YET!
So what do you do next? Bury your head in the sand? Of
course not, you go back and try and find out where you went wrong. Then you try
again this time employing a different method. When this doesn’t work you go
back and look at everything you have done so far. Talk to successful people who
have made it and pick their brain. Analyze a similar model that is very
successful and reverse engineer it! Yeah, you heard me! Steal it then make it
better! I do this all the time. Guess what? It flat out works everyone!
I have
developed models in my business that I know, will work every time. The reason
is, not because I am a genius. It is because I put the time in and, really
studied different concepts and processes. This way I can transfer that
information to help my clients, and I am supremely confident that when we are
through, they are thrilled with the results.
On countless occasions, I have stated to a potential client
this exact pitch; “If I start to do the work and you find I am not doing
exactly what I said I would do, or, if you think I wasted even 1 minute of your
time, just let me know and I will happily write you a check for
$1,000.00.” You know what? I have
never, ever written that check.
Whatever you do, don’t give up. Why do you need to do this?
Because, “Every failure, every adversity and every heartache, carries with it
the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit”, says author and mentor to many
great men, Napoleon Hill. Failure contains the seed of victory and of success.
Failure teaches you what you thought worked, really
doesn’t. So now it is your job to find out why it didn’t. It might be an
obvious thing like, the business isn’t sustainable, or it is vulnerable to
certain changes that maybe you never considered. It might be that you
positioned it wrong and you couldn’t compete or separate yourself from your
competition. I have said this before and I’ll say it again. Competition is
great in sports, it sucks in business! I will tell you right now, that if I
were to start another coffee roasting operation, it would be COMPLETELY
different from the model I bought into all those years ago! Wow now there is a
thought. Sorry I am getting off point.#blogsforselfimprovement
When you study
the reasons for your failure and learn from it, you’ll find the key to your
success. The great inventor Thomas Edison knew this truth better than anyone
else. It took Edison 8000 trials to perfect the Edison battery? Afterwards he
uttered this famous quote, “At least we know 8000 things that don’t work”.
You should also be like that. Every successful person has
had to overcome temporary defeat at one time or another. Know this! You haven’t
really failed until you ACCEPT defeat. Now you don’t have to like it, but you
do have to accept it, because it is real. It happened, now change it, and make
it work!
Do you envy those who got success easily? You know, the guy
that inherited his 150 year old
family business, and didn’t do a thing to earn it? Don’t! Success earned in
spite of earlier failure is so much sweeter than, if you would get it because
you were born lucky.
Those who earn success in this way know the road to
success. They are not afraid of losing what they have because they have learned
how to become successful. Those that easily got success don’t know the road.
You on the other hand have cracked the code. You have weathered the storm, you
are battle tested and now you know what it takes! Once you have acquired this,
there will be no stopping you.
They got there so quickly that they didn’t bother to look
around. Let me use the following analogy to illustrate. Take two guys traveling
to the same destination, with this difference. The one is going by airplane and
the other by car, but the one arriving by car had a few breakdowns along the
way.Howtodealwithfailure
If you take these two guys back to their original position
and ask them to find their way to their destination, who do you think is going
to remember the road better the next time? Surely the guy who had a few
breakdowns and spend some time on the road, because he had the opportunity to
look around.#overcomewhatisholdingyouback
Let temporary defeat no longer be an obstacle. You have
many hidden talents, so start working towards realizing your dreams. Don’t be
put off by the fear of failure. Failure is an ally because it contains the seed
of success.
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Until Next Time,
Joe Leary
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