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attitude of
“persisting in progressing” toward your goal even when
you fall.
This leads to another form of
persistence in goal-achieving:
Get up—when you fall down!
Again, this is not physical, but mental. It is the
mental attitude of taking the falls‘ the way to your
life-goal as “mere happenings”—not disasters!
Don’t just lie there and think that
the road to your goal must be too rough because you fall
so often.
Don’t just lie there and think that
“somebody tripped you.”
Don’t just lie there—GET UP!
Get up—when you fall down!
Get up—and GET GOING! Toward your goal!
The next step in goal-achieving is
found in an old Japanese proverb |
Failure is simply the means of finding
out what will not work so that it can be eliminated in
the search for what will work.
Failure is the principal
research method used in all scientific, medical and
industrial research.
Edison and his staff conducted 17,000
experiments, which failed before they succeeded in the
one experiment which enabled them to extract latex in
substantial quantities from just onevariety of plant! Which was worth the
17,000 failures!
Failure does not take something out of
you; failure builds a lot of necessary character and
personality qualities into you. You are not weaker
because you fail; you are tougher, stronger, more
determined—and much wiser!
Your successes improved the
situation—but only your failures improved You! Failure
is a great teacher.
Being unafraid of failure, you can
seek the highest goal! You may not reach the stars, but
you can chart your course by them! |
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