Do You Feel Like a Failure!

Does this sound familiar?

You are fired from your job.  Your sole-mate dumped you. Your business went bankrupt.

Do you feel like every thing you touch turns to ashes right before your eyes?  Are you afraid to make another decision because you are sure it will be wrong?  Dennis Waitley calls this ‘Failure Forecasting’.  Looking back on past failures and assuming your future decision will bring the same results.

Lets look at what some people say about failure:

Success is the ability to go from one 
failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

  Failure is an event, not a person.
            - Zig Ziglar 

The only time you don't fail 
is the last time you try anything- and it works.
- William Strong

There is no such thing as a failure. 
There is only a result, or outcome.
            - Tony Robbins 

Good people are good 
because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan

When you learned to walk were you successful on your first attempt?  Of course not!  It took repetition and positive encouragement from loved ones.  Where would we be today if we all had given up on the first try?

Remember when you learned to ride a bike.  Again, it took repetition and positive encouragement.  You were motivated with excitement to learn to ride that bike because it was a symbol of freedom, a means to see new things and explore new places beyond your neighborhood.

You can begin by ‘re-framing’ those events in your life that you have labeled as ‘failures’.  If you search, I am sure you will find something you learned from that experience.  As David McNally says, ‘If you've made mistakes it doesn't matter.  Failure doesn't matter.  All that matters is that you learned and grew as a result of those experiences'.

Stop worrying about failure.   It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, 
it just doesn't matter!!  

- Joe Freeman

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