Lately I haven't felt like a failure... I know that is a good thing... but at times in my life I do… and why is it that when you are down it is like a magnet that pulls more bad things to you… it seems like you just keep spinning in that vortex and can’t get out of it… How do you get it to stop????
A friend posted this in Facebook one day and made me think…..
Failure: The most important step in overcoming failure (which can be setbacks, mistakes, challenges, or just plain screw ups) is to understand “failure is an event not a person”. It is something that happens to you – but it is not YOU! To put it simply, failing to achieve does not make you a failure. There is only one way to fail and that is to stumble and not look beyond the failure to the next adventure.
Wikepedia defines failure as to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation. There are different types of failure. Some examples are (1) Failure to anticipate, (2) failure to perceive, (3) failure to carry out a task.
So in light of the definition above if I set a goal to make $3,000,000 in sales this month and I only make $2,900,000 am I a failure? Or are there levels of failure…. Like I reach for the stars but landed on the moon so I am only a little bit of a failure…. Or 3rd place failure….
I think there are times that we just give up or we don’t start something because we are afraid of failure. Well every time a baby falls when learning how to walk is a failure. Should that baby just give up because he has had those failures… or should he get back up and start again?
It is the same thing with all of us… whether you are in sales or having issues in your personal life…. Stop, breath, assess the situation and get back up and try again.
Understand it is not the failing part that gets us. It is the quitting involved when we experience a failure. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is quitting. If you tenaciously persist, you will succeed. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and climb upward. You will eventually reach the top.
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