FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS
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“Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there,” - Ralph Heath.
Success means having each area of our life balanced.
These areas include self, family, friends, work/business, community, spiritual and material things. * Try not to ignore any of these.
When someone concentrates on just one or two of these areas, then the others will fight back. For instance, a workaholic will probably lose his family and friends, then become an alcoholic.
Success is about learning how to recognize why you failed, and how you’re going to compensate for it.
Failure is a far better character builder than any affirmation or fleeting goal.
Most daredevils, the pioneers, the inventors, the explorers embrace failure as a necessary step to unprecedented success. So, I believe we can also have this kind of attitude to life in order to succeed in all our endeavour.
For the next few weeks, I will be writing up on selected pioneers, inventors and explorers who have personal stories about their struggles, failures and successes to share with the whole world.
Today, I will give a synopsis about Walt Disney and J.K. Rowling.
In 1919, Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because his editor felt he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” In 9121, Walt formed his first animation company in Kansas City. He was later forced to dissolve his company and at one point could not pay his rent and reportedly survived by eating dog food.
Disney would later found the Walt Disney Productions, now known as The Walt Disney Company, a company that has become one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world.
Disney became particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice.
J.K. Rowling (1965 - ) is the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history. She was a divorced singled mother living off welfare when she began writing the first "Harry Potter" novel. At that time, she was also attending school.
Harry Potter franchise, which was an international hit, made Rowling a billionaire as of April 2012 . Rowling wrote six more books in the series, which sold into the hundreds of millions and was adapted into a blockbuster film franchise. She is now internationally renowned for her seven-book Harry Potter series and, in U.S. currency, became the first billionaire author in 2004.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill.
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” ― Joel Osteen.
“One of the biggest secrets to success is operating inside your strength zone but outside of your comfort zone,”
What is Failure?
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective – wikipedia.“Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there,” - Ralph Heath.
What is Success?
Success means completing an objective or reaching a goal- business directory.com.Success means having each area of our life balanced.
These areas include self, family, friends, work/business, community, spiritual and material things. * Try not to ignore any of these.
When someone concentrates on just one or two of these areas, then the others will fight back. For instance, a workaholic will probably lose his family and friends, then become an alcoholic.
Failure to Success
The best way to measure your progress at something is the number of setbacks and “failures” you’ve had.Success is about learning how to recognize why you failed, and how you’re going to compensate for it.
Failure is a far better character builder than any affirmation or fleeting goal.
Most daredevils, the pioneers, the inventors, the explorers embrace failure as a necessary step to unprecedented success. So, I believe we can also have this kind of attitude to life in order to succeed in all our endeavour.
For the next few weeks, I will be writing up on selected pioneers, inventors and explorers who have personal stories about their struggles, failures and successes to share with the whole world.
Today, I will give a synopsis about Walt Disney and J.K. Rowling.
Are They Failures or Successes?
Walt Disney
Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) was an American motion-picture and television producer and showman, who was famous as a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland.
In 1919, Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because his editor felt he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” In 9121, Walt formed his first animation company in Kansas City. He was later forced to dissolve his company and at one point could not pay his rent and reportedly survived by eating dog food.Disney would later found the Walt Disney Productions, now known as The Walt Disney Company, a company that has become one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world.
Disney became particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice.
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling (1965 - ) is the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history. She was a divorced singled mother living off welfare when she began writing the first "Harry Potter" novel. At that time, she was also attending school. Harry Potter franchise, which was an international hit, made Rowling a billionaire as of April 2012 . Rowling wrote six more books in the series, which sold into the hundreds of millions and was adapted into a blockbuster film franchise. She is now internationally renowned for her seven-book Harry Potter series and, in U.S. currency, became the first billionaire author in 2004.
Quotes
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill.
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” ― Joel Osteen.
“One of the biggest secrets to success is operating inside your strength zone but outside of your comfort zone,”
Very true. Other examples are Ray Kroc, who founded the MacDonalds food chain at 53; and Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who was described as a monumental debtor in the mid 70s by Fortune magazine.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment, Wale. This is the first of this success series. I will be writing more every week
DeleteAwesome work.Just wanted to drop a comment and say I am new to your blog and really like what I am reading.Thanks for the share
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