Thomas Alva Edison failed in his experiment for thousands of
times before he was able to invent the electric light bulb.
Laurence Peter failed when more than 20 publishers rejected
his book, “The Peter Principle,” before it became a best-
seller. Abraham Lincoln failed the bar exam, failed in
several business ventures, and failed in six major elections
before he was finally elected president.
The truth is, all the aforementioned great people failed…
but they were not failures. Their actions may have failed
but not their very selves, definitely not their spirits. In
fact, they used those “failed moments” as a challenge, as a
key to their success.
The same can be said about any endeavor that we get into,
your home business for instance. Are you failing in your
home business? Have you ever failed? What did you do? Did
you wallow in self-pity and blame everyone for your fall? Or
did you choose to be positive about it?
POSITIVE ASPECTS OF FAILURE
Many people fail to realize that “failure” in itself is not
really a bad thing. In fact, most of those people who have
found success — whether in their business or personal
lives — went through a series of failures. However, they
did not see those experiences as a bane but as a boon. They
learned from their mistakes, from their failures, and they
used these lessons to try and try again until they attained
success. Here are some positive aspects of failure:
*Failure can actually mean that you are broadening your
goals and undertaking fresh challenges.
In business, as in life, you encounter various changes and
challenges. Do you welcome such changes and challenges and
see how you can improve your life through these? Or do you
merely sulk and reject these because you are already
comfortable with the status quo and you do not want to take
any risk?
That’s exactly the point. People who take the challenge face
the risk of failure, but they also accept the opportunity to
succeed. Indeed, not failing may mean that you refuse to aim
high and broaden your goals. You content yourself with
setting “low goals” because you are afraid of failure. In
the end, the irony of it all is that you may be failing even
more because you have already lost the chance of success
when you chose to do nothing about it.
*Failure can be a good test of persistence and perseverance.
How far are you willing to go? How much are you willing to
take?
Truly, it is much, much easier to quit when you fail.
However, a person who has the makings of a true successful
person will persevere. He will use whatever lessons he has
learned from past mistakes and actually turn his failure
into success.
Is your business failing? Don’t quit. If you do, you
actually admit defeat and you are already accepting that you
are a failure.
Do not look at failure as something to shun or be afraid of.
Instead, look at it as an opportunity — to learn, to grow,
to aspire for more. Consider failure as a significant part
of your life, because life demands that we act, participate,
move. And in so doing, we take the risk of failing. But this
only proves that we are actually doing our share.
FAILING SUCCESSFULLY
Now that you are aware of the positive aspects of failing,
you are ready to apply these in your business or your
personal life. Here are some ways to transform that failure
into success:
1) Fail honestly. Sincerely acknowledge that you failed —
in that particular endeavor, for that time. However, make
sure that you are not accepting defeat and you are not
looking at yourself as a failure.
2) Fail intelligently. Take advantage of a failed endeavor.
Evaluate the experience. Analyze what went wrong. Learn from
such experience.
3) Fail courageously. Do not use such failure as an alibi
for quitting. Instead, extract more courage from such failed
endeavor and be ready to try again, to make things better
the next time.
THE KEY TO UNLOCK YOUR SUCCESS
There are numerous reasons why endeavors, such as home
businesses, fail. As discussed earlier, we have the power to
turn failure into success. Take note, however, that we can
allow failure to do two things — to lock the door towards
our success or to serve as a key to open the door and lead
us to our success. Will you allow failure to lock that
precious door? Or will you use it to unlock and open the
very same door that it had locked? Here are some of those
factors:
*LOCKED: Unclear business plan
*UNLOCK IT: Write out in detail a business plan that is
clear, complete, and goal-oriented. A business plan is the
very foundation of your business. Remember that failing to
plan is tantamount to planning to fail.
*LOCKED: Unclear goals
*UNLOCK IT: Formulate your goals and focus on them. How will
you achieve something if you are not sure of what you really
want to achieve?
*LOCKED: No specified target market
*UNLOCK IT: Clearly define your target market. By desiring
to sell to everyone, you may end up selling to no one at
all.
Truly, only a handful of people succeed easily. Oftentimes,
success is the sweet fruit that you reap after toiling with
failure. It can be the key to your success. Yes, we all
experience failure in our lives. But the question is: Do we
use failure to make us better? Or do we just choose to beGet Your $1.00 Key to your Success http://traffic2freedom.info/
