Rule FIVE: Take Challenges
“Failures are lessons on our way to success”.
“Success is a challenge well met; the number of attempts does not count.”
“Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid”. –Keats-
If you want to be successful in life you have to be courageous enough to handle failure. If you are afraid of failures, you will not be able to take any risks. And you will never fail, because you simply never try. You fail only when you do something. You can’t achieve anything worthwhile unless you are prepared to take a few risks.
Thomas Edison has said, "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward”. Edison is said to have tried 10,000 times before he was finally successful with the light bulb.
We all know that it is better to try and fail than not to try at all, but how many of us are really able to do it?
Walt Disney had to declare bankruptcy five times before he became successful.
John Grisham was not discouraged even after a number of publishers turned down his work. He has eighty million books in print all over the world today.
When we come across people who have not been successful in life, we find that they are the people who are most afraid of taking risks. They have made themselves failure proof; they take no risks. You can’t fall from the bottom they know, and this gives them a sense of security they want.
On the other hand, look at the successful people around you. See how they have been taking risks all the way to their success. They have had no better guarantee of success than you or anyone has had, on the contrary they have, in fact, faced more failures than you had more successes as well, because they took those risks. Do we care to know how many unsuccessful attempts it took for man to learn to fly, or for Edison to come up with the light bulb?
Abraham Lincoln is one man we all know as one of the most successful presidents of the United States of America. But how many of us know of how and where he failed before he could finally achieve. He failed in business at the age of 21 and 24; he lost his sweetheart at 26; he had a nervous breakdown at 27; he lost a congressional race at 34 and a senatorial race at 45; he failed to become the vice-president at 47; he lost senatorial race again at 49; and after all this, he was finally elected the president of the United States at 54. And this is all we know, and care about. The history of US would have been different had Lincoln bowed down to his setbacks and failures.
We have to know that, there is a mistake gives hope, and mistakes can be rectified. It is human to make mistakes, but it is divine to learn from them. The best thing that makes do for us is to make us wiser, stronger, tougher and better prepared to proceed on our way to success. Always remember, failure is a lesson and nothing more, and no learning is a waste and we are here to learn.
“Failures are lessons on our way to success”.
“Success is a challenge well met; the number of attempts does not count.”
“Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid”. –Keats-
If you want to be successful in life you have to be courageous enough to handle failure. If you are afraid of failures, you will not be able to take any risks. And you will never fail, because you simply never try. You fail only when you do something. You can’t achieve anything worthwhile unless you are prepared to take a few risks.
Thomas Edison has said, "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward”. Edison is said to have tried 10,000 times before he was finally successful with the light bulb.
We all know that it is better to try and fail than not to try at all, but how many of us are really able to do it?
Walt Disney had to declare bankruptcy five times before he became successful.
John Grisham was not discouraged even after a number of publishers turned down his work. He has eighty million books in print all over the world today.
When we come across people who have not been successful in life, we find that they are the people who are most afraid of taking risks. They have made themselves failure proof; they take no risks. You can’t fall from the bottom they know, and this gives them a sense of security they want.
On the other hand, look at the successful people around you. See how they have been taking risks all the way to their success. They have had no better guarantee of success than you or anyone has had, on the contrary they have, in fact, faced more failures than you had more successes as well, because they took those risks. Do we care to know how many unsuccessful attempts it took for man to learn to fly, or for Edison to come up with the light bulb?
Abraham Lincoln is one man we all know as one of the most successful presidents of the United States of America. But how many of us know of how and where he failed before he could finally achieve. He failed in business at the age of 21 and 24; he lost his sweetheart at 26; he had a nervous breakdown at 27; he lost a congressional race at 34 and a senatorial race at 45; he failed to become the vice-president at 47; he lost senatorial race again at 49; and after all this, he was finally elected the president of the United States at 54. And this is all we know, and care about. The history of US would have been different had Lincoln bowed down to his setbacks and failures.
We have to know that, there is a mistake gives hope, and mistakes can be rectified. It is human to make mistakes, but it is divine to learn from them. The best thing that makes do for us is to make us wiser, stronger, tougher and better prepared to proceed on our way to success. Always remember, failure is a lesson and nothing more, and no learning is a waste and we are here to learn.
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