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Failures:
pillars of success
by Neville Perera No failure is permanent but a temporary setback in a successful life. Failure may be defined as the wrong way to do it. Therefore failure has advantageous elements in that, it tells us how not to do something. When you know how something should not be done, you are in a better position to learn how it should be done. While you learn from your failures by discovering how not to proceed, you may learn more effectively from your successes by discovering how to proceed rightly. One thing never to do is to accept failure. Instead, only accept success. Keep the failure context out of your thoughts. Infuse your mind with success concepts. The famous Thomas A. Edison had this sign-board on his office wall. "There is a better way to do it; find it". And how do you find it? By discipline and creative thinking, motivated by prayer. No success can be attained in this life without diligence. Work, and work more, diligently applied, is open sesame to successful achievement. The ability to do the laborious tasks and keep on doing them is essential to successful outcome. All successful people have a goal. Not a fuzzy, indefinitive objective but rather a sharp, clearly defined specific goal. No one can get where he wants to go unless he knows where he wants to go or what he wants to be or do. Be sure that your goal is a right one, for nothing that is wrong will ever turn right. Wrongness eventuates wrongness. Only rightness produces rightness. Be right. To be sure that you are doing with your life what ought to be done with it, ask your God for direction and guidance. Then you can attain true and basic success. Adopt the thoughts that you want to do the most good in the world, achieve the best values, not alone by for yourself, but for all people, and you will bring your total experience into the area of successful motivation. Here are some famous sayings... Stick to your job and prepare, success will come. Without trouble nothing can be successful. Noting succeeds like success. If a good man thrives, all thrive with him. All succeeds with people who are of a sweet and cheerful disposition. Sometimes you may have to cope with success with difficulty. Organise the difficulty. Take it apart and study its component elements. New insights will come to you. Always apply sound, reasonable thinking and affirm, with confidence, that you can think your way through any difficulty. Practise patience, for some difficulties are not handled overnight. |
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