If You Think You Have Failed - Think Again!

Author: Ryan Kiew

Ever tried doing something repeatedly but failed miserably each time? Do you ever feel like quitting when everything you try does not seem to work? Congratulations! You are already much more successful than the majority of people who do not even try and a few steps closer to success than you think you are! Why do I say so?

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

The majority of the people have big goals like you and me. They hope to advance in their career, start their own business, earn lots of money, buy a new car, go for that long vacation etc, but fail to take even the first step towards their goals. Therefore, by failing, it means that you have already gone past the first major hurdle in attaining your goals. Goals without actions are just day dreams!

"Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no failure in life, there is only feedback as you will never ever really fail, unless you give up! Every unsuccessful attempt only gives you additional information feedback that you need to fine tune your ideas. See each failure as a new opportunity to begin more wisely with a higher probability of success. Eventually you will be successful if you keep trying!

"Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

If you have never made a mistake in life, it means that you have not live it to the fullest. Failure is part of the learning process when we attempt new things, try new challenges. By failing, we learn, by learning we grow. Eventually, we can rightfully say that we are a better person than before as each failure is closer step towards self-actualization! When we grow old and look back at our life, we do not want it to be full of regret knowing that there are many things that we wished we had done but have not attempted!

So the next time you think that you have failed, consider what I have mentioned above and you will feel much better. It does not matter how slowly you go or how many mistakes you make. As long as you do not stop, you will achieve your goals successfully eventually!