CONTRIBUTED BY: RISHIKESH MOHAPATRA
Failure & Success are the two most important words in this world. Failure is one of the most scaring words in the world. The very idea of failing is enough to stop most people from their tracks. It can cause the majority to simply pack up, turn around and retreat without even trying. Success is a magical word. Most of us want to be labeled by being called as a successful man. We always think about the reason for success of other people but do we ever go back & see the failures and rigorousness’s one has faced during the development stage. We have to believe that the reason for their success is that they considered their obstacles as an opportunity to move ahead by accepting the challenges in the right spirit. That’s why Henry Ford said:-
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
I think there is a secret behind this which we are all known but we sometimes fail to implement & follow. The secret lies in Patience. I recall one common story, where an arts student was being taught to learn a new set of movements & he asked his master how long it would take to master it. His master replies it would take two years, the student reflected that it was too long a period & enthusiastically offered to put in 200% of his time and effort. He then wanted to know how long it would take to master it. The master thought for a while & replied “my dear student it will now take 4years. If we want to success we need to keep patience”. That’s the secret of success, we should follow it.
“If we fail”:- this is the fear we always have in our minds. Little do we realize that fear of failure is one of the biggest obstacles to living a full & rewarding life. So the next question which may arises that “how do we overcome this? The answer is very simple, do the things we fear first. Take fear as a challenge, turn mission impossible to mission easily possible”. If you want to be more successful then “just double your failure rate”.
Remember one thing that, short term failures are building blocks for future success. The magical mantra that should be adopted by each one of us is that “failure is a stepping stone to success”, if we don’t move ahead we won’t learn the valuable lessons that we need to learn. Michael Jordan said:-
“I’ve failed over and over & over again in my life and that is why I succeed”.
Before accepting any challenge, many of us make statement that “it’s impossible or this is not my cup of tea”. Why is it that we have this kind of mind set? Instead why don’t we question our self, what skill do I lack which I need to overcome? Why can he/she does it & I can’t? We always make an excuse to take challenges. We have to set one thing in our minds that “impossible is nothing”.
We all known about the famous sayings that:-
“Winners don’t do different things,
They do things differently”
“Success is achieved by using the ordinary mind in an extraordinary manner”. If you want to be a successful person, then follow two great thoughts of Swami Vivekananda that is:-
“Stand up, be bold, be strong .take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders & know that you are the creator of your own destiny”.
&
“Take up one idea, make that one idea your life- think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success”
Most of us waste our energy thinking about the past or think of the future while we are awake. The result is we miss our today. one undergoes lot of mental suffering, but why don’t we live in our present rather thinking the past that is pulling us towards it and frightening the tomorrow, which we have to face & which is unknown.
Just forget that you are a failure. If you forget this and take the opportunities that you are getting to learn, and adopt it for a better future.
“Failure is the pillar of success” –failure offers each of us the gift of learning, the ways and means of getting stronger. We are winning through losing; hence we cannot hope to become really successful in our lives unless we learn to fail well. Failure & success are shows us two things, “finding the positive power of failure will make you a successful business person” in business world & “the sooner we learn to face failure & regain control, the more successful our lives will be”.
“You can, if you think you can”
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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
I think there is a secret behind this which we are all known but we sometimes fail to implement & follow. The secret lies in Patience. I recall one common story, where an arts student was being taught to learn a new set of movements & he asked his master how long it would take to master it. His master replies it would take two years, the student reflected that it was too long a period & enthusiastically offered to put in 200% of his time and effort. He then wanted to know how long it would take to master it. The master thought for a while & replied “my dear student it will now take 4years. If we want to success we need to keep patience”. That’s the secret of success, we should follow it.
“If we fail”:- this is the fear we always have in our minds. Little do we realize that fear of failure is one of the biggest obstacles to living a full & rewarding life. So the next question which may arises that “how do we overcome this? The answer is very simple, do the things we fear first. Take fear as a challenge, turn mission impossible to mission easily possible”. If you want to be more successful then “just double your failure rate”.
Remember one thing that, short term failures are building blocks for future success. The magical mantra that should be adopted by each one of us is that “failure is a stepping stone to success”, if we don’t move ahead we won’t learn the valuable lessons that we need to learn. Michael Jordan said:-
“I’ve failed over and over & over again in my life and that is why I succeed”.
Before accepting any challenge, many of us make statement that “it’s impossible or this is not my cup of tea”. Why is it that we have this kind of mind set? Instead why don’t we question our self, what skill do I lack which I need to overcome? Why can he/she does it & I can’t? We always make an excuse to take challenges. We have to set one thing in our minds that “impossible is nothing”.
We all known about the famous sayings that:-
“Winners don’t do different things,
They do things differently”
“Success is achieved by using the ordinary mind in an extraordinary manner”. If you want to be a successful person, then follow two great thoughts of Swami Vivekananda that is:-
“Stand up, be bold, be strong .take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders & know that you are the creator of your own destiny”.
&
“Take up one idea, make that one idea your life- think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success”
Most of us waste our energy thinking about the past or think of the future while we are awake. The result is we miss our today. one undergoes lot of mental suffering, but why don’t we live in our present rather thinking the past that is pulling us towards it and frightening the tomorrow, which we have to face & which is unknown.
Just forget that you are a failure. If you forget this and take the opportunities that you are getting to learn, and adopt it for a better future.
“Failure is the pillar of success” –failure offers each of us the gift of learning, the ways and means of getting stronger. We are winning through losing; hence we cannot hope to become really successful in our lives unless we learn to fail well. Failure & success are shows us two things, “finding the positive power of failure will make you a successful business person” in business world & “the sooner we learn to face failure & regain control, the more successful our lives will be”.
“You can, if you think you can”
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