By Chris Widener Most people think that failure is bad and success is good. I want to help you change your thinking about that if you fall into that category. I will give you that failure isn’t fun and success is, but I think the following is true:Both failure and success are good… if you know what their specific purpose is. Of course we know that success is good, but why? Success is good because it confirms things for us. Success confirms our plans. Success confirms our … [Read more...]
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"Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?" - Jillian Michaels … [Read more...]
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"There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence." - General Colin Powell … [Read more...]
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan … [Read more...]
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"If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed." - Anthony Robbins … [Read more...]
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“Many people dream of and hope for success. To me, success can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work, which results from the 99% that is called failure.” - Soichiro Honda … [Read more...]
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A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. - Elmer G. Letterman … [Read more...]
Eight Life Lessons that have Helped Me
• THINK about what you THINK ABOUT… and if you catch yourself thinking about unhappiness, ill health and adversity, "change the channel" and think about what you want to happen! • When something happens by chance, follow up. Lucky people tend to notice and act on good things that occur by happenstance. • Believe that good things will happen. Expectations have a way of coming true. • When bad things happen, look for the bright side; i.e., "what did I learn from that?" or, … [Read more...]
Exceptional Thinking – Motivational Performance Coaching Training VIdeo
In this peak performance training video, you'll learn critical thinking skills that can help improve your results in several areas of life. Being exceptional means using thinking skills that go against the way many of us were programmed to think. We learned early on that failure, stress and obstacles are bad things, but that is not necessarily true. Top performers use stress and failure to propel themselves to their next level, so they approach setbacks with different thinking skills and a … [Read more...]
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Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill … [Read more...]
Evan Till Eleven
By Ron White One of my good friends has a little boy named Evan. I call him 'Evan Till Eleven' because it rhymes and I am a clown. When I met them, he was zero. But, shortly thereafter he just had a birthday so now he is one year old. A few weeks ago, we were at a swimming pool party. Evan had no fear of the water. He kept jumping off the steps of the pool to catch the water shooting out of the fountain. Every time he would jump off the steps I would catch him because little did he know … [Read more...]
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"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill … [Read more...]
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"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success." - Og Mandino … [Read more...]
Einstein’s Ability to Risk and Willingness to be Wrong
The early life of Einstein gives us some clues to the great man that he would become. He was never one to dominant conversation to prove his intellect. Even as a child he didn't talk much. It has been said that he didn't talk until 3 -- there are conflicting accounts on this. However, what is not conflicting is that it took him a little longer to talk than the average child. But, we must remember that Albert Einstein was far from average. Einstein's parents hardly coddled their first born. … [Read more...]
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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day." - Jim Rohn … [Read more...]
