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!

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What Exactly is the Science of Getting Rich About?

Well, in the words of Wallace D. Wattles,

The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way. Those who do things in this certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich. Those who do not do things in this certain way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects. Therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

The Science of Getting Rich is all about learning how to do things in this "certain" way to create everlasting wealth.

It’s Not What You Are That Holds You Back

Several weeks ago I spoke to a group in Houston and I showed them the pictures below.

Do you recognize Thomas Edison, Cher, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner and my hero Winston Churchill?

Then I asked the audience what they all had in common.

Can you guess?

There were quite a few answers from the audience and they were all wrong. It was only after I pulled out $100 and offered it as a prize that a person in the back overcame his fear of being wrong and volunteered the correct answer….

….they were all dyslexic!

I pointed out that the role that made each of them famous also required a lot of reading. Do you know how hard it is for a dyslexic person to read?

But not a single one of those great people that I cited let dyslexia keep them from being all they were created to be.

That’s why one of my most favourite quotes is, “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.”

I use that quote by Denis Waitley virtually every time I speak to an audience.

Because it really speaks to the problem I think most people have in struggling for success — they believe they’re lacking something that if they possessed it would make them successful. When the truth is, they already possess everything they need to be successful hey just need to learn how to use it to their advantage.

One of the easiest ways to change a limiting belief is to study the
evidence — find the truth. The Internet makes it so easy to research that particular challenge you find limiting. Look for people who
have gone on to great success despite the same challenge. Study them in depth and model what they did to achieve their goals.

And please never forget this, “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.”

Vic Johnson

www.vicjohnson.com

Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."

Read a newspaper or listen to the news today and you're certain to hear of some major economic failure or calamity.

Regardless of where you live in the world there is more than enough news, that if you let it influence your thinking, will lead you to the idea that we're in for a lot of doom and gloom.

In many ways it's not any different than it was in the 1930's when America and the world was feeling the worst effects of the Great Depression. In fact, I'll bet you could probably switch out a lot of the big headlines of today with those of yesteryear and they'd probably fit.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to office as President of the U.S. during that time, his inaugural address included some of the most famous words of all time, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

He goes on to say some words that aren't as famous as his quote, but have application in all our struggles, "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

According to Ask Yahoo! he was essentially saying "if we can't shake our pessimistic economic outlook, it will be tough to turn things around."

The whole theme for Roosevelt's quote was given to him by his presidential advisor of the time, a writer and reporter named Napoleon Hill.

It wasn't long after this that Hill wrote the block buster that is credited with helping more people become millionaires than any other book - Think and Grow Rich. From Truett Cathy, Founder and Chairman of Chick-fil-A, to cookie king Wally "Famous" Amos, Think and Grow Rich continues to influence those who seek massive success. And it was from this original blueprint that we created the highly acclaimed TGR Seminar.

Turn CNN (Constantly Negative News) off and get turned on to Napoleon's idea that what the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

- Vic Johnson

Don't sweat the small stuff...

A friend sent this through to me, thought it was rather an interesting perspective on life...

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Now, THIS is really fascinating - it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way.

I certainly thought this was enlightening. Beyond our sun It's a big universe.

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.

It is more than 1000 light years away.

Now TRY to wrap your mind around this.........

This is a Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field Infrared View of countless

'ENTIRE' Galaxies Billions of Light-Years Away.

Below is a close up of one of the darkest regions of the photo above.

Humbling, isn't it?

Now How Big Are You?

And how big are the things that upset you today?

Keep life in perspective...

and don't sweat the small stuff!

Youngest Self Made Billionaire: Mark Zuckerberg (Age 23) - Facebook

Age: 23
Fortune: self made
Source: Facebook
Net Worth: $1.5 bil
Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: Palo Alto,
California , United States, North America
Industry: Technology
Marital Status: single,
Education: Harvard University, Drop Out



Tech's newest golden boy founded addictive social networking site Facebook in February 2004 from his Harvard dorm room. Left school for Silicon Valley later that year; scored initial $500,000 investment from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel. Venture firms soon swooned, among them Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Today Facebook boasts 66 million active users. Estimated annual sales: $150 million. Expanding beyond being a college-only message system and photo album;
now courting users to 55,000 different high school, business and city networks.

Problems with privacy: installed "News Feed" in 2006; program automatically alerted users' friends to changes they made to their profiles. Outcry over privacy concerns led company to backpedal; Zuckerberg issued apology. Similar controversy ensued after release of Facebook Beacon late last year; program automatically alerted friends of activities on selected outside sites, including
eBay and Fandango. Microsoft bought 1.6% stake for $240 million last October; deal led many to suggest the company is worth $15 billion. Some analysts—and even a few Facebook investors—suggest the company's value is far lower.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Mark-Zuckerberg_I9UB.html

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Be a Lake...

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. "How awful does it taste?" the Master asked. "Awful," spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the aprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?" "Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No" said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The PAIN of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste of the 'PAIN' depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in PAIN, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things.....Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"

Never Give Up!

One day I decided to quit...

I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality...

I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.

"God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?"

His answer surprised me...

"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"

"Yes", I replied.

"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water.

The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed.

But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.

And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.

"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit.

In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo see.
I would not quit." He said.

"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth.
Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.

It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive.

I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."

He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots"

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you."

"Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."

"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high"
"How high should I rise" I asked.

"How high will the bamboo rise" He asked in return.

"As high as it can" I questioned.

"Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."

I left the forest and bring back this story.

Never Give Up!

"Connecting the Dots", - Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

The $20 Bill

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?"

Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."

He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air."Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on theground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. Nomatter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are stillpriceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.

You are special - don't ever forget it.