“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”- Thomas Edison…
I learned that failure is a good thing and it is a good word. It is something we must be proud of and rewarded for… you must be thinking how can you be rewarded for failure. Common!!! Really, you should.. When people fail it shows that they courage to accept it and not deny it. That failure is a temporary state of our being and it is only two steps from the victory. She shared something really cool with us. She said that she had more failures in business and only one business succeeded and made her Barbara Corcoran , the real estate expert. Barbara Corcoran is witty, savvy, funny and very authentic. She never accepted NO in her life for an answer. She took negative feedback as a challenge and never allowed people to distract her from knowing who she truly was! Her mother was an inspiration to her who planted a seed that she had IMAGINATION. Barbara learned that failure can be good for us and that when we build business we must reward people for failure especially when we know they tried their best. There is a difference between a real looser or a person who is dedicated to do what it takes to make it work. Failure does not mean we are not smart. It only means that we have got a new chance to make it right. Failure makes us champions if we believe that we deserve to be successful and stay away from negative people
I remember when I was a professional dancer, and nobody saw how many times I twisted my ankles, sweated in the dance studio, drilling one move 100 times and finally made the perfect performance. Our success is like a dance. It takes 5 minutes to perform but it takes 100 failures and hours of work to make it look magic. The magic here is not the final result. The magic is in failure. The same applies to our business. It takes some people years to make millions overnight, and we get perception that we can do that the same way. Failure is well accepted in my house. It is not TABU word. My kids learned to laugh about failure and we use humor to deal with pressure of the failure.
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I realized that failure is ok. It forms who we become. It opens our inner door and reveals to the world that perfection is only perception and that failure is not a defeat but a victory. When we fail we know that we will become aware of our next steps. It shows people that successful people are not perfect. Without failure we will not be able to be who we are today. We must honor feelings of accomplishment when we do things right.
I want to conclude this post with quote about failure from Corita Kent.
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
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Tatyana Gann is an online entrepreneur an online marketing mentor, a social media and online PR consultant, a professional connector, a mom of two great boys and an amazing hostess. To Learn More About Tatyana Gann, subscribe to her “Attraction Marketing Queen Newsletter”
