`Who Else Wants to Keep Failing?
Who wants to carry on being a failure?
Failure.Not a great word is it?It is a very negative word, it saysnothing good happened at all.But it's still a word that is useda lot by so many people.
Here in the UK as this is being writtenthere is a huge buzz in the media about an alternative phrase for the word failure.This buzz centres around a groupof school teachers who have decidedthat failure is not an option forthe children they teach. Nowthey just have "deferred success".Of course the media is sensationalisingthe phrase as Political correctness, butI can see where they are going with this.
Deferred success, I like the soundof it don't you?It was said by someone (and repeatedby many) that you haven't failed untilyou actually stop trying. When youlook right at it, deferred success meansexactly the same thing. In a classroomthey will make you do something over andover until you get it right, so untilthey give up doing it, no one has failed.If they eventually grasp the lessonthen their success was only deferreduntil a later time.
Isn't this how you should see your business "failures" instead.You no longer failed you merelydeferred success until you attainit later. Every "deferred success"is actually a step towards successbecause you just learned how notto do whatever it is you were attempting. Once you run out ofways that don't work, you willdiscover the one that does.
When you fail you are using a negativein association with your business. Ifyou defer success then that says something positive is yet to come.
So isn't it time for you to stopfailing, and instead have a"deferred success"?
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