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Failure Is Better Than Doing Nothing
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt
You Can’t Buy Magic, You Have To Make Your OwnSalesmen like me, will have you believe that there is something magical in the way we earned our success and that if you buy something from us you will be able to buy some of the magic that made us successful. But it’s not true. You can’t buy someone else’s magic. We all have our own magic. We are all special in some unique way. It is our job to find what our own creative uniqueness is and share it with the world. You have your own magic. It is your job to find it.
You Don’t Need CredentialsBrian Williams, heir apparent to Tom Brokow at NBC News attended George Washington University but never finished.
Harrison Ford, the actor from Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the current K-19, attended Ripon College but never finished.
Milton Friedman who won a Nobel Prize in Economics flunked his qualifying exam to work in insurance.
Back at the early 1900’s there was a man named Dr. Samuel P. Langley who was the country’s leading expert on aerodynamics and even got a $50,000 government grant to try to come up with successful airplane. He failed after decades of work. But two, uneducated, unknown, and unfunded bicycle mechanics, Orville and Wilbur Wright did it instead.
Lawyers Are Like Your MotherThey keep telling you about possibilities but not the probabilities. Your mom says: “Don’t run with a pencil in your hand, you’ll poke your eye out.” “You better eat all your vegetables because there are millions of people in India starving.”
Your lawyer says: “You are going to be audited by the IRS and go to jail if you don’t hire me to help with your taxes.” “Someone is going to sue you and take your house, your car and your family if you don’t do what I say.”
You have a 1,000% greater chance of being killed in a car than poking your eye out or going to jail for your taxes, but we never worry about driving a car. Your mom can’t give you the names of 3 people who are starving in India and your lawyer can name 3 local people who lost everything because they didn’t do what their lawyer said.
Failure Makes You Fight Harder
If you choose something you really want to do, failure can be a wonderful motivator. When you fall down, the little voice inside will say “Get up, get up. You can’t let them keep you down. You can show them. You’re good enough to do it. Keep trying.”
These little self pep talks will come easily in failure when you are doing what you really want to do in life. You are eventually going to show everyone that you can do it. That you are going to keep coming back no matter what they do to you to try to keep you down. WOW… That’s really living.
Don’t Complain About the WorldChange your little portion of the world the way you dream the world should be. If you hate the way businesses are run, then start your own and run it the way you believe a business SHOULD be run. It you hate the way politicians lie all the time, run for a local office yourself, like the school board or dog catcher and start telling the truth. You may not be able to change the entire world the way you want it before you die, but you do have the power to change your little portion of it. And you cannot gain the right to criticize unless you walk the walk along with talking the talk.
“Even If You Are On The Right Track You’ll Get Run Over If You Just Sit There….”I found out from Tom Friedman in the New York Times that Will Rogers said this a long time ago
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