You're right, Roope! We must keep moving forward. There's a lot to be learned from failure if we don't give up. Failure can motivate us to dig deeper and learn how to succeed. Btw... Brian Tracy & Jim Rohn are on my list of favorite business coaches. Thanks for the post! :)

Have a great week!
Colleen

Hello Roope,

This post of yours struck a chord in me as it brought me back to an experience I had several years ago.

I was elected the District Director (then called District Governor) of a Toastmasters District in Southern California. Every District had two missions. To help all its members achieve their speaking and communication goals. And to help add new clubs and members to the District.

We had metrics that tracked the progress of every District in the World. Since the Toastmasters Year spans from July 1 to June 30, the deadline to meet these goals was on June 30th.

With one month left to meet our goals, our District was in last place statistically compared to all the other Districts in the world. We had so many nay-sayers who told me I should give up. We could never catch up with so little time left.

I felt like I was punched in the face! However, I never gave up because I could see we were very close to achieving our goals.

Come June 30th, 2007, we reached our goals. When the stats were updated on July 1st, our district standing leapfrogged from last place into the Distinguished tier.

At the International Convention in August, I was presented with the Distinguished District Plaque that validated my belief and that of my leadership team, that we would make it as long as we didn't give up. 

As you stated, we tried and tried and tried again and again until we succeeded.

Cheers.

Edwin

Good morning Roope,

Thank you for your blog post. I hope you're doing well.

Thank you for your very wise and encouraging words; they are so true! Every one of us has had problems and had a bad day! Giving up is not an option; we have to keep pushing through!

I often think about the highly successful people in the world; I'm sure they have absolutely massive problems every day or probably almost every minute! However, they choose to be overcome and keep pushing forward! We have to do the same.

Wishing you a great Sunday.

Roy

Awesome article…Now I can relate to boxing. You never get out if the ring you just sharpen your skills. That’s why you train to dodge and block the hits. You exercise and sharpen your skills. Before you know it your moving up rank and get getting more exposure. Which always leads to more money

Roope, you know my motto here
"Never Quit. Never Quit!"-my WA motto