Have you failed at something before? I bet the feeling was so amazing you wanted to fail over and over again.
In reviewing my past activities and how life has treated me got me to the attend to failure. Failure is despised by we all. Failure is one thing that sets off the mood of every individual and as such we try everything humanly possible to avoid it. In my quest to find financial stability and wholeness thought me a whole lot of ordeal about failure. When i first started thinking about becoming a million dollar rich, my mentor gave me three things to do. He gave me two books to read and a pile of motivational videos and showed me the source of the videos. The two books are; Rich dad poor dad and The Richest Man In Babylon. I really never understood why he gave me a pile of motivational videos till i saw my life being pronounced directly to me today.
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We all get disgusted by failure. But without failure there will be no need for examining progress.If we always succeed at our next target with ease, then we are not really challenging ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison's story brought me greater content and delight in failure and now failure is my friend. He failed 1000 times when he was trying to develop the electric bulb. On his 1001 attempt, he succeeded. His consistency to pursue his target was phenomenal but what really struck me was how he responded to a question being asked by a journalist. A journalist asked him after inventing the electric bulb how he felt failing 1000 times before getting it right. His answer is what amazed me to write this article. His response was; he didn't actually fail 1000 times but learnt 1000 ways of how not to get the electric bulb to work and after he had learned all those skills, he was now prepared enough to make a mistake into his success. Every failure is a lesson.
We all often treat our failures as our enemies. We kick ourselves in the butt when we face failures. We do this so often that we never get to learn from our failures. To me not failing means not being challenged enough and as such i try to find challenging activities day in day out. When i started my university education, i was a straight "A" student with a GPA of 4.82 out of 5. I realized that schooling alone isn't challenging enough for me and as such, i had to add a part time work. Work isn't easy and neither is education. Combining the two has really stressed me to be at my best at the moment and given me so many opportunities. I am not a straight A student anymore but neither I'm i also a full time student. The work addition has enabled me to network more with people in office and i see this as a great opportunity for me in future.
The idea of "failure" can be put into a strong weapon. Its only when we characterize failure as a step closer to success that we will begin to enjoy the full benefits of it. Failure only means you have learnt how not to do something in a particular way. Be motivated and strive for success. Have a wonderful day.