Thinking
OVERALL RATING
Sometimes one has to relax and do a little personal development. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.â Thomas A. Edison Nobody likes to fail. But if weâre honest, we understand that failure is a part of life. There is no success without some amount of failure. Great inventors like Thomas Edison experience a lot of failures on the way to a successful invention. Even the best baseball players strike out much more often than they hit a home run. Anyone pursuing a goal of value will make mistakes and wrong decisions. So the key is to expect failure, to prepare for it, to be ready to turn it into a lesson and a stepping-stone to success. There is such a thing as a successful failure. Itâs like lifting weights to failure or learning a new job and it all takes time. I recall recently saying I have so much more to be better at my job. Everyday I try to improve. Less of me and more of others. When we make mistakes and then consider trying again, we all feel some measure of fear. Facing the unknown, we easily come up with a list of things to worry about. But the act of worrying doesnât help us at all in accomplishing our goals. As Corrie ten Boom said, âWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. Just believing that failure can be good isnât enough to help us succeed. We need to act on that belief and take a step forward again in pursuit of our dream. Only then do we learn from our mistakes and make progress. A successful failure is a failure that we respond to correctly: by finding the good, taking responsibility, moving on, and taking action. How do you respond to failure?