There was an executive in IBM who lost Ten million pounds.
His boss rather than firing him which seems to be the right thing to do in that
circumstance decided to do otherwise.
Thomas Watson Jr. the President of IBM invited the man to his
office. The young
Man quickly cleared his desk with the expectation that he
will be fired. Thomas Watson Jr. asks the young man. “Do you know why you are
here?” the young man replied “I suppose you’re going to fire me?” the President
replied Fire you! Are you crazy? I’ve just spent ten million pounds on your
education.”
Failure is a form of education and experience that one gets
on his quest for success unlimited. If you’ve never failed in any of your life’s
ambition, I’m afraid the success you’ve attained needs to be questioned.
A wise man once said that it would be impossible to live with
a person who had never failed or been defeated in any of his purpose. He also
discovered that people achieve success in almost exact proportion to the extent
to which they meet and master adversity and defeat.
Those who are truly successful see failures as blessing in
disguise. Failure opens one’s eyes to see new opportunity that exist without
our knowledge. It brings your weakness to lime light.
When you fail, see it as a thing that must come and go, learn
from it, boldly walk pass it and keep going forward. Failure is a temporary
thing.
The fact that you failed is a proof that there is still more
to learn. Failure and mistakes helps you to learn better. One of the riskiest
things you can do in life is to do little and common things so as to avoid
mistakes and failures.
Thomas A. Edison failed ten thousand times before he invented
the electric bulb. When asked why he decided to keep going on with all the
failures he encountered, he said he just discovered ten thousand ways why it
will not work. He learned from the temporary failures that would have stopped
him from achieving success.
Abraham Lincoln encountered big-time failures on his quest to
becoming the president of the United States. He did no chicken-out, he kept
pressing on. He learnt from failures and defeats. In 1860, He was sworn into
office as the 16th President of the United States of America.
Learn to see failures and defeats as a platform for a great
and rapid learning experience. Vernan Sanders says “Experience is a hard
teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
The fact that you failed today means that you have what it
takes to become successful – why? Because you made a try. You can only be
stopped from achieving your success when you stop trying after you encounter
failures.
The Japanese as a nation failed on their quest to building an
industrialized nation. The failure they encounter did not stop them. They
interpolated and extrapolated, I mean they looked inward and outward.
They hired Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a Management guru and a
Statistician. He helped them learn from their failures and today Japan is one
of the most industrialized nations in the world.
You too can become as successful as you desire if only you
would learn from your failures and the failures of others.
En-route success unlimited™, we know that;
“Failure
is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight
in tripping one when success is almost within reach”
- Napoleon Hill
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.
I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a
successful executive."
- Scott Adams
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