Have Confidence, Turn Failure Into Success

sleeping-at-the-wheelNot posting much tonight. Exhausted… Ever feel like you were sleeping at the wheel?

I mean I have burning the candle at both ends while paying the price of my goals… happily I might add. Had a thought run through my head and just had to run with it.

I was doing some reading, and since we were talking about how to turn failure into success in a previous post, I thought I would share this idea regarding failure with you.

I was reading a blog by Jim Estill and being A CEO of a large corporation, there is a lot I can learn from him. Here is an excerpt from his post just to let you see how certain attitudes can shape your decision making. Also a quote from Henry Ford about how he uses failure.

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Failure is a success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes

In a recent interview, I was asked what my biggest failure was. Interesting, I could not come up with just one.

I believe one of my biggest reasons for success is that I fail more often than most people.

It goes with my “Fail often, fail fast, fail cheap”.

It goes with “you only fail from not trying – not from trying”.

And having a failure, does not make you a failure . . . – Jim Estill
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Now . . . if the CEO of a major corporation today like Jim Estill, and old Henry Ford can say that they fail from time to time, then what excuse do I have?

It is easy to see that Jim’s confidence levels are pretty high in his competence to persist, enough so that a “failure”, is not allowed to affect his self esteem at it’s basic level.

See also  Seven Keys To Success

I think that we must have confidence in ourselves and realize that failure is just part of the trip, not the destination.

It is the goal that is our destination, and we can achieve it by allowing ourself to see past the failures for the wins.

I have always been one for enjoying the journey as well as the destination, but sometimes we just have to focus on the prize, not the process . . .