Failing Forward to Your Success

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Failing Forward to Your Success.

Must we get everything right First Time?

Can Failing along the way stop you from completing the task?

Should we avoid Failure at all cost?

Hopefully you have answered NO to all the above.

Yes you should always try to get each task right when you set out, butinevitably you will never get everything correct on your firstattempt. It is an impossibility. You will fail along the way and although this may be an inconvenience and will cost you additionaltime, it should NOT and must NOT stop you progressing to the end.

You Will Fail.

Accept that failure will happen along the way, it is a certainty, especiallywhen you have ambitious plans and exciting goals. You will mostdefinitely have a great deal of new material to learn, so rather thanavoiding at all cost, embrace the failures and treat it as part ofyour learning curve.

Samuel Beckett Irish Novelist said “Evertried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”I think this quote adequately demonstrates two aspects of attemptinganything. One:-you need to try out tasks and not fear making mistakes (everyonemakes them) and Two:-keep going to the end even if more failures happen along the way.

Always a Lesson.

Develope the entrepreneur attitude and believe 'That Never a Failure, Always a Lesson'. Figure out what didn't go right and decide what you can dodifferently next time. Then do it. Do not let excuses or negativethoughts rule your mind. Remember, you are not a product of your circumstances, you are a product of your decisions.

You'll only learn by failing over and over again, each time this happens yougain further knowledge to help you move forward in your quest. Whenyou do this, you're able to grow. Fortunately here at WealthyAffiliate there is a fantastic community of very knowledgeable people. All of whom would be able to provide answers and assistanceto various problems and failures you encounter on the path to yourgoal. They will help you grow.

From a young age we are taught that failure is a bad thing, we grow upbelieving that failure is a bad thing but ask any entrepreneur andthey will tell you that failure is a good thing. Entrepreneurs willtell you, Failure is not only good but its good for you. It must beexpected, it must be accepted and failure must be learned from to moveforward. Failure isn't losing its learning.

Failures are Usually Only Temporary

By using failure as a great tool, we can refine our strategy and altercourse. Once, failures occur we can make various changes to our gameplan by using slight tweaks from the information gained from themistakes. As failures are usually only temporary we can normal just dust ourselves off, alter out thinking and get back on the horse andcomplete the task.

People are so often afraid that they will fail at something, so they won'teven try. Make sure you don't ever become that person. Everyone hasfailed at something in their life, but not everyone is willing to tryand try again. Dreams don't work unless you do.

Here at Wealthy Affiliate, Kyle and Carson have developed a fantasticplatform, the training is truly magnificent and the tools providedare phenomenal. You have a wonderful opportunity to develop yourskill set and become the business person you have been dreaming of. Being challenged in life is inevitable; being defeated is optional.

Entrepreneurs possess a deep understanding of failure and reflection, have a veryresilient nature and are dogged in their determination to succeed.It's these qualities that set them apart from the quitters. You justneed to work hard and never give up. People who reach the top aren't afraid to climb the failure hill.

Failure can teach you more than constant success.

Produce – Fail – Reflect - Move Forward. Weall need to embrace 'Failing Forward'

To demonstrate the Positive end of successful failures.

Have a go at this Quiz.

Would any of you be inspired by these absolute failures?

Read the next 5 passages, and try to guess who they are (without Referencing or Googling) have a guess at each one, then go to the bottom of the page.

1. Almost unbelievably, he was fired from the very company he began in a garage. The dismissal made him realize that his passion for his work exceeded the disappointment of failure. He said “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from that job was the best thing that could have ever happened to me,”. Which person was this?

2. 5 years after failing in business, he suffered a nervous breakdown, a year after that he was defeated in his run for high office. He was no stranger to rejection and failure, but rather than taking these signs as a motivation for surrender, he refused to stop trying his best.

   In this great man’s words: “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” Who was this no stranger to failure?

3. During a Harvard commencement speech she outlined the importance and value of failure. Why? …....Simply because she was once a failure too. A few short years after her graduation from college, her worst nightmares were realized. In her words, “I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Country, without being homeless I was the biggest failure I knew.” Coming out of this failure stronger and more determined was the key to her success. Who is this big failure..... a truly remarkable lady?

4. It would be an easy misconception that his particular skills revolved around natural talent. In fact, in his earlier years coaches had trouble looking past the fact that he didn’t reach the minimum height requirement. He said “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” It was years of effort, practice, and failure that made the star we all know today. Is this guy a washed up no good failure or really a fantastic star and motivator?

5. He dropped out of school at a young age in a failed attempt at joining the army. One of his earlier ventures, was Laugh-o-Gram it went bankrupt due to his lack of ability to run a successful business. He was once fired from a Newspaper for “not being creative enough.” Basically he kept failing but he was always learning from those failures and moving forward. Is this person a totally failed businessman.

I was inspired to write this after reading Tim McKinlay's Post. Take alook here:@https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/timmckinlay/blog/why-failing-is-critical-to-your-success-as-an-entrepreneur

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1. Steve Jobs (Ex CEO of Apple), 2. Abraham Lincoln (16th US President),

3. J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter Author), 4. Michael Jordan (Ex BasketBall Star)

5. Walt Disney (Disney Studios)