Failure ... Bring it on !

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
- Laurence J. Peter

People don’t understand the importance of failure in achievement. Failure is a prerequisite to success. It is a part of the learning process. We must be willing to look openly into our failures and build on them. We must fall on our faces, get up, dust ourselves off, and feel good about the lessons learned. This will help us gain the strength to move on to the next level. Everybody falls from time to time. The true winners are the ones who get back up immediately, learn from their experiences, and strive to be better.

Be the Teacher

"To teach is to learn twice”
- Joseph Joubert

Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, talks about the power of teaching. He even suggests having your kids teach you their schoolwork so they have to learn it by teaching it. Such a simple idea … why didn’t someone think of this before? A critical ingredient in developing your aptitude, then, is to be the teacher in your approach to learning. When you teach, you see things more clearly and retain more.

Set the Right Goals

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too
high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”
– Michelangelo

Do you have goals? Do you write them down? Do you review them once a day or once a week? Goal setting is one of the most critical skills that you must master to create success in your life. It’s a skill that you can learn. I am motivated, consoled, or calmed by thinking of what’s really important in my life. Goals are critical to success but until you take action they can’t be achieved.