Dealing with mistakes and failures - Part 3
DEALING WITH MISTAKES AND FAILURES - PART 3
Mario D'Couto
The irony of life is that the greater the fall, the greater the rise. Failures are like bouncing a ball. The more harder a ball is bounced, the greater will it rise. However, in order to deal with it, it is important first and foremost to be committed to a particular goal, as William Matthews would say, "One well cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties."
Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade to success. Theodore Roosevelt said, "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the great twilight that knows not victory or defeat." One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, lived on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake, must awfully get desire of doing nothing.
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, then the lessons." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. In the book of Proverbs it is written, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he or she confesses and forsakes them, he or she gets another chance."
The death of your dream will not happen because of a failure. Its death will come from indifference and apathy. The best way to go on after a failure is to learn the lesson and forget the details.If you don't, you'll become like the scalded dog that fears hot water and afterwards cold.
Failure can become a weight or it can give you wings. The only way to make a comeback is to go on. If the truth were known, 99% of success is built on former failures. A mistake usually proves somebody stopped talking long enough to do something. You're like a tea bag: not worth much until you've been through some hot water.
All in all, when you are persistent, it's proof you have not been defeated. It is like the analogy of the stone cutter which I had cited in one my previous articles by John Riis who wrote, "Look at the stone cutter hammering away at the rock, perhaps a 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow, it will split into two and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before it." Here is a person that sums up all that we have been saying in brief,
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, then the lessons." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. In the book of Proverbs it is written, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he or she confesses and forsakes them, he or she gets another chance."
The death of your dream will not happen because of a failure. Its death will come from indifference and apathy. The best way to go on after a failure is to learn the lesson and forget the details.If you don't, you'll become like the scalded dog that fears hot water and afterwards cold.
Failure can become a weight or it can give you wings. The only way to make a comeback is to go on. If the truth were known, 99% of success is built on former failures. A mistake usually proves somebody stopped talking long enough to do something. You're like a tea bag: not worth much until you've been through some hot water.
All in all, when you are persistent, it's proof you have not been defeated. It is like the analogy of the stone cutter which I had cited in one my previous articles by John Riis who wrote, "Look at the stone cutter hammering away at the rock, perhaps a 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow, it will split into two and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before it." Here is a person that sums up all that we have been saying in brief,
Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are;
It may be near when seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit;
It's when things seem worse that you must not quit.
