Failure creates success! Part I

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How many people out there are just plain afraid to fail?

I mean how many of you are real risk takers?

Or are you calculated risk takers?

Politically correct risk takers?

Slow, methodological thinkers?

If you were falling off a cliff and I threw you a rope would you wonder if it would hold you while you missed the chance to grab it?

Are you aware that in the business world today, one of the major keys that separates real leaders from the rest, one of the things that keeps most people in middle management, is simply fear?

Fear of making a decision – because I might make the wrong one.

Fear of failure – how will I look?

Fear of taking the chance – I could mess up.

Fear of risk – I could get fired.

If you lost it all today – so what.

Do you understand that it is so much easier to get it the second time around.

It really is because:

- you know what not to do

- which in turn creates less options that fail

- which in turn creates more chance of being a winner.

Look at the people you really, really, really respect.

They are usually the risk takers, the ones that put it all on the line.

The ones that seem to have no fear.

Why isn't that you?

What if you could get there?

Have you learned yet that the further up in an organization you go or the larger your organization grows, the:

bigger the impact of your decisions

less time you have to decide

less information you have to make the decision with.

Here is the bottom line for you, if you can't make the simple decision on buying paper clips, what will you do faced with laying off 1000 people? Fear?

One of the greatest problems today's formal education system is that it does not allow, does not teach, does not accept, does not support and does not use failure to create success. Instead it punishes it. It creates a great fear of failure. That same fear that holds you back so many times.

Please think about that for a moment.

Think about the things that have taught you the most in your business, life, career, family.

The reason my business and so many other businesses today are successful is because we have failed and failed and failed trying and we have learned from each experience and continued.

Wow!

Think about that for a moment and see what you come up with?

You see, we miss most of the opportunities in life because we just let them pass us by because of this fear of failure

And I am here to tell you that failure teaches us more than most other things in life.

Thomas Edison who failed more than 1000 times in building the light bulb, should he have stopped and just marketed what he had, something that did not work.

Should he have said, this is OK, it is almost there?

Should he have given up and said that is OK?

Of course not.

And we respect him and we use that quote more than most other quotes.

“Oh you got to keep going like Thomas Edison, you can't quite now”.

But we don't live it.

We talk about it, but we don't live it

We don't do it and the question is why not.

Answer that, get out there and take that chance, and see what happens in your life, business, family and career. Failure creates success.

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Manny Nowak is serial entrepreneur. Over the past 20 years he has built a number of successful and not so successful business enterprises. This has included software, high-tech consulting and tradeshow enterprises. He is a success coach who knows how to get the best out of his clients. He understands what it is like to site in your seat, because he has been there and done it. Though real life experience in building, running and working with small business he can relate to your needs and help you find the solutions you are looking for. His method is simple, yet effective. Build the vision, build the plan and then keep you accountable to get there. Results drive success through strategic success coaching. Manny has an undergraduate degree form Glassboro State College (Rowan University) and did his graduate work in the Organizational Dynamics program at the University of Pennsylvania. Manny is a trained professional speaker and has spoken at a variety of tradeshows and professional events. He is also the author of dozens of books, CD’s, DVD's and other tools to help entrepreneurs build successful companies.
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