{"id":47635,"date":"2017-02-16T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=47635"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:46:17","slug":"the-success-of-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/the-success-of-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Success of Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever noticed that when people aren\u2019t where they want to be\u2014maybe their career isn\u2019t as advanced as they\u2019d like or they\u2019re not in the loving relationship they\u2019ve always dreamed of\u2014they have a tendency to beat themselves up? They start saying \u201cI\u2019m not this\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m not that,\u201d as if they are somehow doomed because they lack a certain characteristic, quality, or trait.<\/p>\n

Realistically, we all have responsibility as to how our life turns out. After all, if we want something, then we are the ones who have to do the work to get it. However, if you\u2019re constantly judging yourself, telling yourself that you\u2019re a failure at things, it will <\/em>hold you back. It will prevent you from ever moving forward, like a 200-pound backpack attached securely to your back.<\/p>\n

But the thing about failure is that it is never final\u2026that is, unless you let it be. In fact, if you look at some of the greatest, most well-known people in history, they\u2019d have never been successful if they experienced a failure and just accepted it as their fate.<\/p>\n

Take Thomas Edison, for instance. His teachers literally called him \u201cstupid\u201d and his first two employers let him go because he was \u201cnon-productive.\u201d Regardless, he still had a dream inside him to give the rest of the world light.<\/p>\n

The first time he attempted to make a light bulb, he failed. The second time, he failed. The hundredth time, he failed. Did he stop? Did he just accept his failures as his fate? No. He kept going. He failed again and again until the one-thousandth time and\u2026wouldn\u2019t you know it\u2026the light bulb was born.<\/p>\n

Think about where we\u2019d be today if he\u2019d given up any of the 999 times before. Think about what impact it would have on our existence today if he\u2019d said, \u201cWell, I give up. I\u2019m a failure. Apparently I am<\/em> stupid and non-productive.\u201d<\/p>\n

As hockey great Wayne Gretzky once said, \u201cYou miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.\u201d Or, as Michael Jordan has said, \u201cI\u2019ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed,\u201d following up with, \u201cObstacles don\u2019t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don\u2019t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Failure is only a failure if you decide to give up. As long as you don\u2019t do that, then it\u2019s simply a lesson learned. It\u2019s a tool that tells you what doesn\u2019t<\/em> work so you can cross that idea off your list of possibilities and move on to something that does.<\/p>\n

Remember too that you\u2019re not alone when it comes to failures, so quit beating yourself up. Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul<\/em> series reached out to 144 different publishers before finding one who would take on his idea for this set of books. Again, had he given up any of those times, the world wouldn\u2019t have been blessed with the many stories of inspiration and motivation they contain.<\/p>\n

Again, failure is only a failure when you give up. So don\u2019t. Okay?<\/p>\n

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As an entrepreneur, Red has built 3 different organizations.\u00a0Among some of his accomplishments, Red built \u201cThe Accessories Place\u201d into a major vendor of fashion accessories with multimillion dollar sales and double-digit year over year profitability. He is a professional speaker and the author of \u201cLive Your YOUlogy.\u201d In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his 3 children, playing racquetball, and traveling. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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