Written by Craig Bell - This article posted with permission of Online Success Magazine


I don't believe in failure.

There is no such thing.

All there is, is quitting. A person is either in the process of succeeding, or he/she has quit.

Look at a child learning to walk (emphasis on the learning to walk). Toddlers fall down time and time again, but they just keep getting back up.

I've never heard of a toddler giving up after the fiftieth fall and saying, “Obviously God doesn't want me to be a walker,” or “I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Mom can just carry me, because walking is waaaaay too dangerous!”
Danger ahead

Speaking of danger, my oldest girl Amy has a scar on her forehead from back when she was learning to walk. She was just so proud walking around the coffee table and decided to head out across the lounge.

She was going well, and then over she went. Unfortunately, she split her head on the hearth of the fireplace.

As soon as we got back from the doctor, she was up again having another try.

This year she came third in her school's cross-country race. Lucky for her, she never quit on walking!

I remember a time when I was questioning myself so hard and wondering whether I would ever succeed in business on the web. I'd made some silly mistakes, wondered if I was risking too much, and so on.

As seems to be the way, when you yourself are not sure, someone will come along and question your wisdom (or lack of).

And this time it wasn't just anyone, it was my wife.

Fuel to the fire

For me, this was the equivalent of Amy's hearth incident.

It was crunch time. Do I quit, or do I get up again and carry on? This was a good time to learn from the example set by Amy.

More importantly, how could I tell my kids “you can do anything if you put your mind to it,” when there was no evidence of it in my own life?

The key to lasting success

The key to lasting success is to relate to failure the way that kids do when they're too young to know better. In particular...

1. They don't call it failure. They call it learning.
2. They LOVE learning.

I love doing homework with my kids. When they're reading, and they get to a difficult word, it's tough for a while. But once they've read it, the world is their oyster. They just can't smile enough!

They don't experience a sense of failure simply because they strike a word they don't know. As a result, they persevere until they know it. Why should it be any different for you and I?

So get up and have another go. And remember the saying that “Quitters don't win, and winners don't quit!”

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