No Success Without Failure
For all of those people who think that every successful person made it to their goal without failure is usually wrong. In those cases where success on reaching a goal, be that an achievement pertaining to work, or to an athlete making it to the top right off the start, understand clearly that this is highly improbable. Why?
Simply put, it is almost impossible, certainly improbable, that a goal is reached instantly without having to take what normally are step after step, or action after action to finally get to the pinnacle of whatever it is that you set out to achieve.
Here is an easy example to explain the above point. The first attempt you made as a child to walk was unsuccessful, or at the very least, a faulting step that ended in you landing on your bum or falling headfirst to the floor. The same is true of riding a bicycle or swimming.
The significant lesson is this: in the course of developing a winning strategy or goal attainment, failure along the way is a normal fact of life. Therefore, the same is true of almost any endeavour, or any attempt to be the best in any field of work, the arts, or business.
Now, while I can make the strongest argument that failure precedes success, I cannot make a strong argument that every one who fails will succeed. So, why is this?
The sad truth is that: ·A failure to achieve, after initial attempts fail, causes a person to simply give up ever trying again no matter how much skill or background they may have; ·Some people fail to assimilate or utilize aspects of their first or succeeding attempts to learn the best lessons that are within the unsuccessful action and to use these valuable lessons as a launching point for their next attempt; ·Or, many people fail to achieve after one or two failures because they lack the dedication, perseverance or burning desire to achieve.
Take a page from the most successful sales people who know this little but vital secret: For every "no" you encounter, you are closer to a "yes" in a final sale. The secret here is that these sales people recognize that every sale has to be won, to be achieved, and not just by wishing. Since the sales person knows that success comes with failure (not closing each sale), they have learned that they will encounter rejection along the way. Knowing that rejection, or obstacles, comes with the territory, means that they will plow through all the "no's" always ready to get to the "yes's".
Remember this: instead of failures stopping you in your tracks, use these failures as your best teachers in knowing what not to do again, and in doing those things that are positive and that helped move you a little closer to your goal even better.