We’ve all heard the name before. This famous American failed over 10,000 times before he brought to life one of the powerful inventions which played a vital role in shaping the modern world.
Although his failures, he was the greatest innovator of all time with 1,093 US patents to his name, along with several others in the UK, and Canada. This is someone who refused to ever give up no matter what.
Do you know who that person is?
I'll keep it to the end so stay with me a bit more ...
When I think of the success of this inspiring figure , it caused me to wonder what is the opposite of success ? is it failure ? is it a miss?
I prefer to look on this from different angle. for me , the opposite
of success is simply as “not success” .
This is not a semantic difference . this is a big difference which remove personal negative attributes.
Most of the people consider non success tries as a failure and
therefore give up or just moving the “cheese around “ instead of
seeing the situation as an opportunity for learning.
Try to run away from negative words or terms such as “what is wrong
with me” ,” I will never succeed ” and so on and try to tay focus on the positive
to generate the right energy.
Don’t be afraid to fail . but if you fail, you should think of it as a
non-success “ attempt. try harder. try again and again . eventually you will find the way to work it out.
Don't use the "sugar coating approach" to evaluate your non success tries from one hand, but on the other hand don't consider yourself as a "loser" or be too hard on yourself.
let's go back to our American hero . As you all probably already guessed the name of that hero is Thomas Edison, who invented the commercially viable electric lightbulb.
So,
Next time when you miss your target ,choose to take the right approach and take the benefits of the situation . you didn't fail!!! you just haven't found the way to do it right.......YET.
Remember ..
A long the "battle" you will experience "non success" attempts no matter what ... but guess what, you will never lose the war!!!
As always, See you on your next Swell Venture and don't forget ........Every Day Is Day One!
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