You think you are the greatest failure in the world? By thinking so, you become. But I think that the fact that you are reading this means that you are having second thoughts. And good thing you are. As Zig Ziglar (a popular motivational speaker) said, “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
Take comfort in the knowledge that even the celebrated successful people have taken a tour of the dumps, most more than once during their lifetime.
Harry Potter’s author (J.K. Rowling) was diagnosed with clinical depression and was contemplating suicide before she achieved success as a billionaire author. Hers is a good failure-to-success inspirational story. Before her celebrated writing career took off, she was once in a situation where her marriage had failed, she was without employment and she had a young child. And yet, in hindsight, she had this to say, “Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Abraham Lincoln is another man who has failed so many times it might have seemed a miracle then that he became a U.S. President. In 1843 he was defeated for nomination for Congress, and although he was elected to Congress in 1846, he lost the renomination in 1848. In 1949 he was rejected for land officer, in 1854 defeated for U.S. Senate, 1856 defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1858 defeated for U.S. Senate. But in 1860 he was elected as President.
Steve Jobs was considered a failure in 1993 when Apple’s Newton tablet wasn’t received well by its targeted market. But, in that failure lay the seeds for the success of the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
So shit happens. Even to the best of us. But how long you stay face down on crap is entirely up to you.
J.K. Rowling, Abraham Lincoln and Steve Jobs decided to work against failure and eventually tasted success. Life in the office might not be as dramatic, but yes, you too can be a success.
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