IF YOU NEVER FAILED - YOU NEVER LIVED
So much is true with the above statement. "If you never failed - then you never lived!" I wonder what Michael Jordan would be doing today if he would have never come out of his bedroom after being cut from the high school basketball team, crying himself to sleep, and took the challenge to be better. What if Walt Disney would have given up after he was fired for not having any original ideas and not having an imagination. Here is a better one that many of us already know. Heidi and Orville Thompson were at one point $700,000 in net debt with Event Sales. Orville says about that time in his life: "I was feeling just beaten down as an entrepreneur, a failure." When Orville mentioned to Heidi that they should just give in and file for bankruptcy she said "no, we are going to swing for the fences and swing hard." You see it doesn't matter how many times we fail, what matters is what you do with that failure.
Every single one of you reading this has failed at something, many things actually. But how you rebounded from those failures is what made you who you are today. Remember, if you have never failed, you have never lived.
I tell our children all the time that quiting is very easy and very addictive. Once you start to quit it is very hard to stop. Don't ever look for the easy way out, take that challenge and NEVER listen to the negativity that may be all around you. In our Scentsy business we hear many people talk about how sales are down, there are too many consultants in one area, I'm not really a sales person, and on and on. Do you think Heidi and Orville really needed to take on another business after being $700,000 in debt with children? Heck no! But the easy way out would be to file bankruptcy and walk away, something Heidi refused to do. I am sure Michael Jordan never wanted go through the pain and embarrassment of being cut from the team again. He could have never tried out again, which would have worked, or work harder to make the team the next season. Look where the hard work and determination got him.
Every morning you wake up you risk failure. You risk failure with your relationships with your partner, children, friends. You risk failure with your job or your own business. You risk failure with every single thing you do but you can't live in a bubble by yourself. You need those loved ones around you to give you words of encouragement, you need that inner voice telling you to never quit, never give up. You have to embrace failure, accept it as a part of life, a learning part. Learn from your mistakes and turn them into something great.
Every single one of you reading this has failed at something, many things actually. But how you rebounded from those failures is what made you who you are today. Remember, if you have never failed, you have never lived.
I tell our children all the time that quiting is very easy and very addictive. Once you start to quit it is very hard to stop. Don't ever look for the easy way out, take that challenge and NEVER listen to the negativity that may be all around you. In our Scentsy business we hear many people talk about how sales are down, there are too many consultants in one area, I'm not really a sales person, and on and on. Do you think Heidi and Orville really needed to take on another business after being $700,000 in debt with children? Heck no! But the easy way out would be to file bankruptcy and walk away, something Heidi refused to do. I am sure Michael Jordan never wanted go through the pain and embarrassment of being cut from the team again. He could have never tried out again, which would have worked, or work harder to make the team the next season. Look where the hard work and determination got him.
Every morning you wake up you risk failure. You risk failure with your relationships with your partner, children, friends. You risk failure with your job or your own business. You risk failure with every single thing you do but you can't live in a bubble by yourself. You need those loved ones around you to give you words of encouragement, you need that inner voice telling you to never quit, never give up. You have to embrace failure, accept it as a part of life, a learning part. Learn from your mistakes and turn them into something great.
Look around you right now, look at the computer you are reading this on, look above you at that light and think of Mr. Edison who was told he was too stupid to learn anything. What if those people quit too? You are not a quitter so stop thinking like that. From this point forward, make everything you do a personal challenge to be be the very best you can. Even if you fail, falling flat on your face, get up, shake it off, and continue to go forward. Never accept failure! Only you can give yourself that internal motivation to keep driving. Don't give to the addiction of quiting and don't accept failure from yourself.
What risk are you going to face today?
LIFE = RISK
