| Ok this one is supposed to be simple. Everyone | | | | modifies his process, sees the project through from |
| wants success to some degree. Now success isn't | | | | start to finish, and fails AGAIN. He starts over, learns |
| the same for everybody; for some it's money, for | | | | some new tricks, surveys his customers, finds out |
| others it's attaining an attractive spouse, and for | | | | their wants and likes, finds out their needs and |
| some it's just plain happiness in one form or the | | | | dislikes, 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 to | | | | those unsuccessful and disappointing attempts, he |
| have their chips in all the right baskets and know all | | | | makes 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 a | | | | GETS IT. Happy ending? Maybe. But he has |
| successful thinker and a failure-type thinker. Both deal | | | | SUCCEEDED. 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 daily | | | | name. |
| basis. The successful thinker has the same insecurities | | | | Are you starting to see the difference? Everybody |
| as the failure, but it's in the way he processes those | | | | fails; the successful people usually fail the most. But |
| thoughts and portrays them in his daily interactions | | | | they 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 Thomas | | | | Think of this analogy (I did NOT come up with this |
| Edison failed (thousands of times). Take a look at | | | | one): the best baseball players hit .400 or .300 AT |
| how your failures have affected you. I can look back | | | | BEST. That's only 3 hits out of 10! 30%! That means |
| at some disappointments in my life and pinpoint the | | | | they FAILED 7 times! Yet, they are the best |
| ones I was hurt by and pinpoint the ones that grew | | | | because they have succeeded at a higher rate than |
| me into the happy and goal-oriented person that I | | | | the 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 action | | | | successful and unsuccessful people is how they use |
| and mindset and lets that failure destroy him. He will | | | | the 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 the | | | | your failures drive you one step closer to your |
| failure. He gets up; he fails again. He tries again, | | | | success! Cheers! |