Failure is the Fertilizer for Success
Life is full of experiences, many of them repeated failures. You truly see the strength of a man or woman when you realize the road they have come to get where they are. Failure happens to all of us, whether you are an ordinary or extraordinary person. The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary people is how they handle their failures.
For example, I think my husband is extraordinary. When he joined the track team in high school, he was called the obese penguin and could barely make it around the football feild. He now runs marathons for a hobby, and is an offer in the Marine Corps, having gone through the most intense basic training in the US Military. He was discouraged from attending college. Even his high school counselor said he wasn't college material. Last year, he was the first in his family to ever graduate from college and now is doing well law school. He paved the way for his younger siblings who are now all in college. He has been put own, laughed at, beat up, rejected and betrayed in many endeavors and situations. Yet, he still is one of the kindest, most tenacious, courageous people I have ever met.
How does he overcome such challenges? When someone says he can't or when he fails, he digs in and tries harder. After all, you only are a failure at something until you succeed at it. And the more times you fail before you succeed the more amazing and rewarding the accomplishment.
Failure is the fertilizer for success. When you fail, you can step back, analyze what went wrong, and what you can do to change for the next time. Each time you fail, you know more about what not to do to succeed, and you are that much closer to becoming extraordinary. Each failure creates more fertile ground for success to grow in.
Thomas Edison said, "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Edison knew of what he spoke. He did not create the light bulb as we know it on the first, second or 100th try. It took over two years of failed attempts before he finally succeeded. Aren't we all glad he kept trying?
It's your choice. Be extraordinary. Never give up!
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Wendy Bridger, LMSW is an author, motivational speaker, and relationship expert. She recently has been featured in 101 Great Ways to Improve your Life along with Mark Victor Hansen, Byron Katie, and other popular inspirational authors of our time offering valuable tips and insights to better your life.
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