Mike's Quotes #34: FAILURE and SUCCESS

 “Without FAILURE one cannot know and experience SUCCESS!”

 - Mike Spillman (07.08.14)

The first definition for the word, "failure", that I came across when I searched was, "The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends." That describes it pretty well, does it not - "...not achieving the desired end or ends". We must deal with failure when we do not achieve (fall short) our desired goal. 

But, the BIG question is this: What do YOU do when you fail or fall short? Some people are afraid to discuss failure because they feel it portrays them as being a loser. 

As we will discuss in this article, failure is a part of success. If you wish to be a success then, friend, you should be prepared to suffer failure.

You have likely heard MANY times the quote by Thomas Edison concerning his failed attempts at developing the electric light bulb, right? If not, here it is...

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Also notice this other quote by Thomas Edison concerning failure or "giving up"... "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

I have stated this before but, friend, the only way that you truly fail is to quit or to give up! The path to success is paved with failure along the way. (Notice the 1st graphic at the beginning of this article.)

I want to leave you with SEVERAL graphics that all deal with the idea of success and failure. Let them inspire you. Let them lift you up and let them spur you on down the road toward SUCCESS.  
 

A failure or a "falling short of your goal" is only a temporary set back unless, again, you decide to give up. DO NOT EVER give up! Instead, GET UP and GET GOING!

And, as you do so, always remember to...

"Make it an AWESOME day! (Who else is going to do it for you?)"

Mike

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Failure IS an Option!

What we USUALLY here is, "Failure is NOT an option!"

 

I understand and appreciate the determination that comes from such a statement. I like to know that this would be the attitude that my surgeon had before doing something major to my body. Know what I mean?

 

That determination is NEEDED when trying to achieve what you set out to achieve.

 

However, it can also be the attitude that CRUSHES you when you fall short......when you "fail".

 

When you have told yourself - or you've been told by others around you - that "failure is NOT an option" then, how do you feel when you DO fail (or fall short)?

 

Believe me, I have not forgotten that I have said many times that failure is NOT a definition of who you are...it is simply an EVENT as long as you pick yourself up and keep moving.

 

FAILURE DOES EXIST and it is that FAILURE that has spurred many great people to create and/or invent many of our greatest inventions and thoughts!

Do some research on people like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Abraham Lincoln and even jump forward several decades and take a look at Michael Jordan and Donald Trump. These are but a FEW of a long list of "famous" and successful people that encountered MANY struggles that would be considered as failures.

Their "secret to success"?

THEY REFUSED TO GIVE UP and they also REFUSED TO LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS SAID ABOUT THEM.

I wonder how many "failed attempts" at flying the Wright brothers experienced before that ONE well-known and short flight took place? Or, what about Alexander Graham Bell? Do you think he successfully got someone to say "hello" on the other end of his contraption that we now call the telephone? I can answer that for you: OF COURSE NOT!

History is not full of stories of those that quit and gave up.

History IS full of stories of those that took FAILURE and used it as FUEL for their journey to SUCCESS.

And, by the way - DO NOT MISS THIS POINT - this also applies to those that REFUSE to give up when a marriage gets tough or when being a parent gets tough! History may not record your name but, more importantly, your FAMILY and those that LOOK TO YOU will remember!



So, yeah, failure IS an option but it's what you do with it that matters in the end.

 

Keep that in mind and, as always, be sure to...

"Make it an AWESOME day! (Who else is going to do it for you?)"

Mike

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Some Days Are Better Than Others

I wonder how many people would have given up before they ever started if they knew that the stats mentioned in this picture would be theirs.

 

I wonder how many people of with a lesser will than Michael Jordan's would have given up after just one of those potential game-winning shots that he missed.

 

You see, friend, it's just a fact in ANY area of life that some days are better than others. Right?

 

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Some days it just seems as if NOTHING could go wrong and that everything is just lined up perfectly to give you the best day ever! Ever have a day like that? Probably so but did it stay like that?

 

Of course not!

 

Because there are also those days that you and I have both experienced where it seemed as if NOTHING could go RIGHT and that everything was lined up perfectly to give us the WORST day ever! But again, did it stay like that?

 

Of course not!

 

So just think about this, if YOU have days like that then so do all of the people that you come across every day. Family, friends, clients, etc. None of us are "perfect" and none of us are "always on" 24/7.

 

So think about that before you condemn, criticize or get too frustrated with those around you. It just may be "one of those days" and, by the way, they may be trying to overlook YOUR problems when YOU have "one of those days" as well.

 

Ahhhh... now you see.

 

Don't give up. Don't EVER give up and always be sure to...

 

"Make it an AWESOME day! (Who else is going to do it for you?)"

 

Mike