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Failure Is Not an Option

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

“Failure is, in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.” – John Keats

Failure is one thing and one thing alone. Failure is when you give up. While you will, no doubt, face many obstacles, dead-ends, and hard times, you haven’t failed. Success begins with picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and starting all over again until you get it right. Failure is an event, it is not you.

One way I look at it is – I was successful in discovering how something did not work. If you keep this attitude you will never fail.

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Be Willing to Risk

Friday, June 26th, 2009

“The way to succeed is to double your error rate.” – Thomas J. Watson

When Jon Krakauer faced the seemingly impossible climb up Everest, he knew the risks. He knew that there had been many that had gone before him and never made it back. As he climbed upward, battling sub-zero temperatures and passing those who had fallen before him, he knew he was taking a very big risk. However, he survived and became a national celebrity for it.

While you don’t have to climb Mount Everest to succeed in your goals, you must be willing to take risks. Without risk, success will forever elude you. Talk to any successful individual and they will tell you that, without risk, they wouldn’t be where they are today.

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Aim High

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Too often, we sell ourselves out. Instead of aiming for success, we aim for “just good enough to get by.” When we do this, we find ourselves unhappy, in a rut, and never becoming the success that we could be.

If you’ve dreamed of being CEO of your own corporation, yet you are – again – limiting yourself and begin telling yourself that such a goal is absurd and unattainable, then the outcome is undeniable. You’ll remain where you are until you begin to understand that everyone who has accomplished seemingly unattainable goals has begun from right where you are: the beginning.

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