2. 1. Tell yourself : Failure is normal.
Everyone has faced failure. Some people talk about their failures. Some
people don't talk about their failures, which makes it look like they never
fail. Don't believe it.
3. 2. Tell yourself : Define or refine.
Failure can define you or refine you. If you quit, you have allowed failure
to define you. If you keep going, learn from it and get stronger, you have
used failure to refine you.
4. 3. Tell yourself : Learn from it.
Every failure has something to teach us, if we will only be teachable. To be teachable
we need to ask good questions such as "What contributed to this failure?", "What can I
do differently and/or better next time?", "What's obvious now that I couldn't or wouldn't
see before?"
5. 4. Tell yourself : Change your definition of failure.
We live in an either/or culture. Either you totally succeed or you completely fail.
Many times it's neither. In baseball, you are considered very successful if you hit
the ball one out of every three times you come up to bat.
6. 5. Tell yourself : Redefine what failure means to you.
A failure is simply evidence that you took a shot at accomplishing something,
that you want to be a doer instead of just a talker. Most people are just talkers.
They believe their own talk and then accomplish little, if anything. If you have
failed, it can mean you are a doer instead of a talker.
7. 6. Tell yourself : Successful people fail often.
How can you be successful and fail often? You become successful by taking risks.
Risk implies that you might fail. Otherwise it would not be called risk-taking; it would
be called sure-thing taking. Babe Ruth was the strikeout king of baseball at the
same time he was the home-run king of baseball.
8. 7. Tell yourself : Build on your failures.
Many of the great success stories are built on what was learned from failure or
the motivation that can come from failure. Michael Jordan failed to make his
high school basketball team. He seems to have built on that failure fairly well.
You and I can, too.
9. 8. Tell yourself : Don't fear failure.
The fear of failure holds us back from doing many of the things we would
like to do.
10. 9. Tell yourself : Give up your belief in failure.
A wise person once said, "Failure? I've never encountered it. I've
just learned lots and lots of ways that don't work, and turned that
into a few successes."
11. 10. Tell yourself : Never, ever give up.
An ancient Japanese proverb suggests that we are to "fall down seven
times, get up eight."
12. If you are not failing, you're
not taking enough risks.
Thank You Very Much