Failure is highway to Success. Tom Watson of IBM said "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate".
If we study history, we will find out that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. But people don't see the failures, they only see the end result and they think that person got lucky: Hmmn, No, He must have been at the right place at the right time".
Let me share some famous Life history with you.
★ This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21; was defeat in a legislative race at 22; failed again in business at age 24; had his sweetheart die when he was age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected President of the United State at age 52. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Would you call Lincoln a failure? He could have quit, hung his head in shame, and gone back to his law practice. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour, not a dead end.
★. A new York times editorial on December 10, 1903 questioned the wisdom of the Wright Brothers who were trying to invent a machine heavier than air, that would fly. One week later at kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their famous flight.
★. As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was walking out of a small rodent infested shed near the church, seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.
★. One day a partially deaf four year old child came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not too stupid to learn, I will teach him myself". And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal education.
★. In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man. Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, "There is a great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonography. What an attitude!
Henry Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in the first car he made.
Now, Do you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to negative thinkers, it appears as though they just " got lucky".
All success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep going.
Setbacks are inevitable, a setback can act as a driving force and also teach us humility.
I pray for you, In grief, you will find courage and faith to overcome the setback. Learn to become Victors not victims. Fear and doubt short circuit the mind. Ask yourself after a setback, what did i learn from this experience? Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
Note:- Successful people don't do great things, they only do small things in a great way.
Know This...
★. If you think you are beaten, you are.
★. If you think you dare not, you don't.
★. If you like to win but think you can't, it is almost a cinch you won't.
★. If you think you'll lose, you're lost; for out in the world we find that Success begins with a fellow's will, it's all in the state of mind.
★. If think you are outclassed, you are, you've got to think high to rise, you've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize.
Life battles don't always go to stronger and faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who THINKS HE CAN.
HEY! Yes you CAN no matter what just Believe.