HANDLING FAILURE

The power of failure

Don’t be worried about failing, be a glorious failure rather than a tired and timid traveller on a trouble- freed road - Robert Carrey

In our world today, when we see successful people, we often assume that they got all the breaks, that they were always in the right place at the right time; that they never failed, had never been rejected. If the truth were known, very few people accomplished anything worth while the first time, they attempted it. Even the most successful people generally have a checkerboard career of both success and failure. Please dear reader; understand thus that successful people experience failure almost a s often as unsuccessful people. On the average, successful people fail two out every five attempts, while unsuccessful people fail three out of five attempts. The figures are close. Friends its alright to fail and much more failure is common to all, infact we all fail everyday.

Now what is failure? Failure is the condition of not achieving the desired result or ends; the condition of being found insufficient or falling shorts, so when we fail we have proved ourselves to be deficient, unsuccessful and undependable. We can learn so many things from our failures if only we can use the lens of these five factors about failure;

Failure is inevitable

Failure reminds of me that I am not God i.e. we are ordinary, fallible falling people.

Failure helps me find God and see things through his eyes

Failure can be Gods warning that I am stuck in a rut and need to change something

Failure is an essential part of success, you can separate success from failure, they are two sides of the same coin.

No one learns to make right decisions without making wrong ones.

Dear reader, its okay to fail and failure is a part of life – part of learning.

Many years ago, a young writer interviewed the legendary IBM president Thomas J. Watson and asked him the formular for success. Watson said double your rate of failure, don’t think failure is the enemy of success; failure is teacher – a harsh one perhaps, but the best. But always identify the causes of failure when you fail. Arthur Gordon was the interviewer and became a nationally known author and editor because of a new perspective on failure. Moreover in the school of failure, I identify six key principles.

God knows we will fail

He allows us to fail

He is with us when we fail and if our involves he is ready to forgive

he understand the potential value of our failure

he sees beyond our failure

So live with this that failure need to be futile or final, the difficulties, set back of life are intended to make us better not bitter. We can either groan through life grow through it. Failure should be a stepping stone, not mill-stone. Abraham Lincoln.

My verdict today is let God turn your set backs in to come backs and also you can get it right after you’ve got it wrong.

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Babatunde solanke

President: APEX TRAINING {NIGERIA}