You've got to be joking right? How can we "celebrate" our failure. Well no one said that success alone was to be celebrated! There is a quote from Winston Churchill that says "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” This is precisely why I say we must celebrate our failure. We must channel the same enthusiasm, drive and fervent desire towards working harder to achieve our goal as though it's our very first time trying. When we do things for the first time we usually give it our best shot.We put our all into it. With every failure should be a greater desire to succeed. If we look at the most successful people today, almost all of them had countless failures before they finally succeeded. If they hadn't failed at what they were attempting to do, they would not have succeed at all. It is from these mistakes and setbacks that they learned what not to do. In learning what not to do, they began to discover the secrets that led to their success.
For every disappointment or failure that we encounter, there are at least three more opportunities waiting for us to discover. For many of us we are so set on focusing on our failure that we forget to look out for these very opportunities waiting for us. Instead we chose to use our energy to moan about it rather than use this disappointment as a stepping stone for future success.
In author Susan Jeffers' book "Embracing Uncertainty" she speaks about how uncertainty can actually be a great thing in our life. In essence she poses the question to her readers; Why would you want to know everything about your life? After all where would all the excitement, fear, sadness and joy be if we knew exactly how our life was going to turn out. This makes perfect sense. Uncertainty, which can also be associated with failure is actually a blessing in disguise. It takes us to new and exciting paths that we never thought possible. It gives us the chance to be creative, free spirited and forces us to look at new alternatives. We learn so many new things about ourselves and learn to reinvent ourselves in different ways. Take this simple example for instance.
An investment banker for a hedge fund is laid off. He thinks his entire world is falling apart. He decides to use his time off trying to find a job. While jogging he sees an ad for a casting call for fit men for a sports ad. He attends the casting. The next morning he receives a call from the talent manager. He has just landed himself a spot on National Television that is paying him over 40k. This ad will now run on all major billboards in the country!
Now had he sat at home behind his computer screen depressed and stressed out about his loss would he have gotten this opportunity? He decided to use this time off to think, he hardly ever got time as an investment banker to jog regularly so now with the extra time on his hands he channeled his energy into his passion for sport. Unaware that this uncertainty would land him his new job, he looked for another way to take his mind off the disappointment. What he really did was use this disappointment to his advantage. Rather than look depressed and forlorn he decided to continue to stay fit and maintain his appearance. In other words failure never got the better of him. He was poised for success and kept looking the part even when he "failed".
Where are you going to be in the scheme of things?Will you be the investment banker turned model or will you wobble in your misery and let invaluable opportunities pass you by. Celebrate your failure. You are really preparing for your success, just celebrating it before it actually happens. As I wrote about in my previous blog. Let's enjoy the real moments life has to offer. Both the good and bad.
I end this blog with another great song. It's about never giving up and after seeing the movie this kid NEVER said never!
For every disappointment or failure that we encounter, there are at least three more opportunities waiting for us to discover. For many of us we are so set on focusing on our failure that we forget to look out for these very opportunities waiting for us. Instead we chose to use our energy to moan about it rather than use this disappointment as a stepping stone for future success.
In author Susan Jeffers' book "Embracing Uncertainty" she speaks about how uncertainty can actually be a great thing in our life. In essence she poses the question to her readers; Why would you want to know everything about your life? After all where would all the excitement, fear, sadness and joy be if we knew exactly how our life was going to turn out. This makes perfect sense. Uncertainty, which can also be associated with failure is actually a blessing in disguise. It takes us to new and exciting paths that we never thought possible. It gives us the chance to be creative, free spirited and forces us to look at new alternatives. We learn so many new things about ourselves and learn to reinvent ourselves in different ways. Take this simple example for instance.
An investment banker for a hedge fund is laid off. He thinks his entire world is falling apart. He decides to use his time off trying to find a job. While jogging he sees an ad for a casting call for fit men for a sports ad. He attends the casting. The next morning he receives a call from the talent manager. He has just landed himself a spot on National Television that is paying him over 40k. This ad will now run on all major billboards in the country!
Now had he sat at home behind his computer screen depressed and stressed out about his loss would he have gotten this opportunity? He decided to use this time off to think, he hardly ever got time as an investment banker to jog regularly so now with the extra time on his hands he channeled his energy into his passion for sport. Unaware that this uncertainty would land him his new job, he looked for another way to take his mind off the disappointment. What he really did was use this disappointment to his advantage. Rather than look depressed and forlorn he decided to continue to stay fit and maintain his appearance. In other words failure never got the better of him. He was poised for success and kept looking the part even when he "failed".
Where are you going to be in the scheme of things?Will you be the investment banker turned model or will you wobble in your misery and let invaluable opportunities pass you by. Celebrate your failure. You are really preparing for your success, just celebrating it before it actually happens. As I wrote about in my previous blog. Let's enjoy the real moments life has to offer. Both the good and bad.
I end this blog with another great song. It's about never giving up and after seeing the movie this kid NEVER said never!
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