Fail To Succeed

Fail To Succeed Identify someone you consider to be successful and ask that person how many failures he or she had before success came. I guarantee you that any successful person had to learn failure before success. That s what learning is all about:... More

Fail To Succeed Identify someone you consider to be successful and ask that person how many failures he or she had before success came. I guarantee you that any successful person had to learn failure before success. That s what learning is all about: doing it wrong in order to get it right. We don t all succeed at everything we try. Most of us go through failure to reach success, just as we go through fear in order to build courage. Weightlifting is a great example to illustrate this process of going through failure to reach success. Years ago, when I started building up my scrawny 112 pound body through weight training, my first instructor introduced me to the concept of "going for failure. " I didn t think that sounded so fun-"Let s go fail!"-but my coach explained that breaking a muscle down by exhausting it totally was the best way to build it stronger. By going to failure, I prepared my muscles for greater success. " I failed so that I eventually could succeed. Life is no Less