There is a BIG difference between having failed and being a failure. If you have failed, that does not make you a failure. It is impossible to be a success in life without having failed, not once but rather a number of times along the way. The only way you can end up as a failure is to quit, or give up.
Someone once said – “Don’t pray for things to be easier, rather, pray for more obstacles and more challenges, for it is out of these that man’s character and will to succeed are formed.” Nearly every success story that I am aware of began when the person first lay flat on his mental and financial back. In this condition, people usually become sufficiently disgusted to reach deep down inside and pull out talents, abilities, desire, and determination – the basic essentials required of anyone wishing for things to get better. It is in the face of adversity that things begin to change, and the “things” always change as a result of the personal change that takes place. I have discovered that “things” never change – not by themselves. It’s when a human, with sufficient disgust, desire, and determination to change his/her life finally steps up to the bar and shouts for all the world to hear – “I have had it with defeat and humiliation, and I will tolerate it no longer.” That is when time, fate and circumstances call a hasty conference, and all three wearily agree – “We had best step aside, because we are powerless to stop that kind of resolve.”
Let me ask you … are you satisfied with your life and lifestyle? Are you at that point where you are saying, “I have had enough, things have to change!” Well, you have then taken the first step to changing your life. If you have the desire, determination and the never, never, never give up spirit, you will never be listed among the failures. Quitters never win and winners never quit.
Thought for the Day:
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot – and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan