Thursday, August 25, 2011

Success v/s Failure


Success is the outcome of our attitude and our attitude is clearly a difference maker. Hence Success is a matter of choice and not chance.
On the other hand Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. It is the condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends.
Failure is not bad. Actually, it’s probably the only way to become successful. The obstacles, setbacks, and stumbling blocks are an anticipated aspect of any journey. 


Success and Failure are two very important aspects of life.
To me, Success is a way of life. It's in your mind, body and soul.  Success and happiness go hand in hand. Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get.
Where as Failure is really just feedback telling us to adjust the plan or to try a new approach. Failure in itself isn’t so bad, it’s the belief that gets triggered along with the associated uncomfortable emotions that we wish to avoid.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Carl Jung (1875-1961 Swiss Psychiatrist)

"A little known formula for success is that success happens because of failure."
We need to know that Every success story is also a story of great failure. Failure is the highway to success. Tom Watson Sr. said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."

Moving on to History we find that all the stories of success are also the stories of great failures. But people don't see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: "He must have been at the right place at the right time."

This was a man who failed in business at the age of 21, was defeated in a legislative race at age 22, failed again in business at age 24, overcame the death of his sweetheart at 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 States at age 52.
This man was Abraham Lincoln. Would you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.

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 working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.

One day a partially deaf four year old kid 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 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 schooling and he was partially deaf.

Henry Ford went bankrupt 3 times before he created a car that worked.

So the point is that Successful people don't do great things, they only do small things in a great way.
We don't need to improve 1,000% in any one area. All we need is to improve 1% in 1,000 different areas, which is a lot easier. That is the winning edge
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Success is not something that you run into by accident. It takes a lot of preparation and character. Everyone likes to win but very few are willing to put in the effort and time to prepare to win.
It takes sacrifice and self-discipline. There is no substitute for hard work.
Henry Ford said, "The harder you work, the luckier you get." The world is full of willing workers, some willing to work and the others willing to let them.
Hard work is both a beginning and an end in itself. The harder a person works, the better he feels; and the better he feels, the harder he works.

In order to live a happy and more fulfilling life, you need success to surround you in every sphere of your life.
To be successful, we need to design an alternative paradigm for failure. In other words, redefine failure in a manner allowing ourselves to see whatever happens not as failure, but as “information.” From there, it becomes possible to gather and access this new information and include it in a revised plan.
Love that you are overcoming fear and attempting something new, no matter what the outcome. Of course there will be failures along the way. An entire new set of skills is being learned. When an occasional failure is experienced, get up, dust yourself off, access the new information, believe in yourself, and begin again.
Work on this formula for a few days and forget about success because success will automatically follow you.
Smile and Be Happy always.Good luck!

I will conclude with a thought-
I have learned that Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
(Booker T. Washington)

Peace..Peace..Peace..!!
Love to all <3

Amen..!!

6 comments:

  1. Superb post...nicely written :)
    Do write more..
    Nidhi :)

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  2. hey naman...a fab post..luvd it <3
    you turning out 2 be a spiritual guru, i guess..!! ;)
    keep writing :)
    Love <3
    Roy :)

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  3. Yet again a superbb post..!! :)
    Ur mind blowing thoughts inspire me a lott..!! :)
    Great work.. :)
    Keep posting.. :)
    Waiting for the another one.. :)

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  4. Thank you all for so much Love <3
    Thank you Akriti,Roy and Nidhi for admiring my work..!! :) :)
    love <3
    God Bless..

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  5. awesome work.....
    very well presented,,, :)
    success is the outcome of ur attitude..... all we need to learn is to keep ourselves happy in every condition.... :)
    seriously... good work


    NEHA :)

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  6. @Neha-yup very well said...Attitude is indeed a "Difference maker"
    good to know your views on it..and thanks for those kind words :)
    love..God Bless :)

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