We spend our lives trying to be successful. but nobody talks about the growth we make to survive. And it's understandable why would we? Who wants to know the problems we grow through? And the sacrifices we make. Nobody wants to listen. Nobody cares. People are only there for you when you've succeeded. There's a crowd to applaud.
Failure is something that none of us ever plan for, but it is a part of the human condition. I have spent years failing. I still am. As we go through our lives, there are few, if any, who have never experienced this phenomenon. So as we experience failure, how do we accept it and move on if we cannot admit it? I am not suggesting that when we fail, we broadcast our failure to the world at large. I am suggesting, that admitting failure is a necessary tool that we must use if we are ever to be successful again.
An admission of failure is a very personal thing, and it should be done with those with whom we have a special relationship. Often, we find it difficult to admit to those we love that we have failed. It is especially difficult to admit failure to those who expected it from the beginning. To be wildly successful at anything requires us to go into a venture with a narrow definition of what success looks like. If we have not defined success before we attempt something, how do we know when it is time to give up on it and try something else?
The majority of people believe that success has a monetary value attached to it, but success frequently comes with no monetary reward. As we work in a business, we must be prepared to make a predetermined success in that business look If our success depends on a financial reward, we need to know what we must do to achieve that reward; otherwise, we are at risk of failure. On the other hand, if success is determined by the impact that we have on the lives of others, we cannot always expect that this success will have a financial reward.
So is it possible to fail and succeed at the same time? This is the point that I would like you to ponder. As you go through your life, ask yourself what impact you have on the lives of others. Then weigh that impact against what you've achieved. It may not be a situation where you can claim a financial victory immediately, but it may also be a situation where you are primed to go forward and accomplish something that will reap a significant financial reward.
So No, It doesn't help If Albert Einstein said: "Success is a failure in progress"
Or If Vincent van Gogh said: "If you hear a voice within you say, "You cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Or If Bill Gates said: "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure"
Or If Stephen King said: "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"
Or If Abraham Lincoln said: "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure"
Because when we are failing at things in life and we see no way out, knowing the quotes of successful people doesn't help. But knowing that failure is a part of the process does.
Whether we are thriving now or have been in the past, we are all involved in a process of moving forward, and it is in this common condition that we should all remember to be supportive of others when we see their need for support. Don't remind them how failure worked out for others, But remind them how their failure does not define them.
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