How to be Successful - Failure Vs Success

Ok this one is supposed to be simple. Everyonemodifies his process, sees the project through from
wants success to some degree. Now success isn'tstart to finish, and fails AGAIN. He starts over, learns
the same for everybody; for some it's money, forsome new tricks, surveys his customers, finds out
others it's attaining an attractive spouse, and fortheir wants and likes, finds out their needs and
some it's just plain happiness in one form or thedislikes, puts it all together and...FAILS AGAIN. He
other (sorry if I left your category out). In any case,gets up. He tries and tries and tries. Finally, after all of
it's tried and true that some people just seem tothose unsuccessful and disappointing attempts, he
have their chips in all the right baskets and know allmakes a dollar. He makes someone smile. His product
the right people while some people just plain don't.works. He tweaks and tweaks and tweaks until he
I want to do a simple comparison between aGETS IT. Happy ending? Maybe. But he has
successful thinker and a failure-type thinker. Both dealSUCCEEDED. He is now driven to do more and affect
with the same obstacles and both, believe it or not,more people and continues until he is a household
go through the same internal struggles on a dailyname.
basis. The successful thinker has the same insecuritiesAre you starting to see the difference? Everybody
as the failure, but it's in the way he processes thosefails; the successful people usually fail the most. But
thoughts and portrays them in his daily interactionsthey turn those failures into learning experiences and
that sets him apart.use them to put it into overdrive and head towards
Let's face it: everyone FAILS. Everybody fails period.success.
I fail, you fail, your rich uncle failed, and ThomasThink of this analogy (I did NOT come up with this
Edison failed (thousands of times). Take a look atone): the best baseball players hit .400 or .300 AT
how your failures have affected you. I can look backBEST. That's only 3 hits out of 10! 30%! That means
at some disappointments in my life and pinpoint thethey FAILED 7 times! Yet, they are the best
ones I was hurt by and pinpoint the ones that grewbecause they have succeeded at a higher rate than
me into the happy and goal-oriented person that Ithe unsuccessful hitters. Crazy, huh? It is easy to let
am today. Enough about me, here's the comparison:failures get you down, but the difference between
The failure fails; he lets the failure control his actionsuccessful and unsuccessful people is how they use
and mindset and lets that failure destroy him. He willthe outcome of the failure to drive the next step of
never attempt that same feat again; ever in his life.their life. Simple? Yes. Easy? No. Do your best to let
The successful guy fails; many more times than theyour failures drive you one step closer to your
failure. He gets up; he fails again. He tries again,success! Cheers!