If You Don’t Fail, You Won’t Succeed
Robert Herjavec
Emmy Award Winner ?? Entrepreneur | Investor | Cybersecurity Expert Lead Shark on Shark Tank ?? Author | Mentor | Car Enthusiast Constant, Forward Momentum ??
I’ve spent a lot of time recently talking about failure. It’s one of those words, just like sales, that gets a bad reputation. Failure isn’t a bad word!
At one time or another in our lives we will be faced with the fear of failure.
But if you don’t take that chance – take that first step forward, follow the path unknown – how do you know that you won’t succeed?
After all – we need to understand failure to be able to measure success, don’t we?
Failure is as a lesson that should catapult you into success – and I am certain that I wouldn’t be where I am today without failure.
I talk a lot about how I’ve excelled in business because I’ve made every mistake in the book. But never twice.
I teach my team – deal with your failure in two steps:
1 – Understand why you failed and what you learned.
2 – Get over it !
Most failures occur when we stretch ourselves beyond our limits. Maybe we have too much on our plate. Maybe we’re just seeing the end goal and not considering what it will take to execute flawlessly. Maybe the objective is unrealistic for some reason.
In these cases failure will do one of two things to us: it will either force us to cower into a safe place where comfort becomes more important than achievement; or it will stretch the limits of our ambition. The latter will inspire us to apply the lessons we learned from the failure to our next venture.
Of course, not every endeavor will prove to be successful. That kind of perfection does not occur for me, for my team at Herjavec Group, or for anyone else ! We win and we lose, and the unexpected can happen at any time.
So what happens when you don’t succeed?
Do you sink as low with failure as you fly high with success?
Not really. And if you do, we have to understand why.
I like to think of it this way – Life isn’t a game where every loss is subtracted from your list of victories. My mantra – Failure is never a disaster. For me, failure shows you how to improve, and how to work toward more and better victories in the future.
Everyone fails – we just can’t afford to dwell on it. All we can do is identify where and how we failed, choose the best way to avoid repeating it, then move on.
All failures carry lessons with them so what have you learned from yours?
To Your Success,
RH
Originally posted on robertherjavec.com
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3 年Hey Kim I hope all is well.
artist at loneaglestudios.com
4 年Thank You much I? needed to hear them words .
Sales Specialist @Keller Williams Realty Certified Negotiations Expert: Buying OR Selling of Real Estate.
6 年I agree totally! I always try to think if one fails never give up because F.A.I L. means "FIRST ATTEMPT IN LEARNING" I try to remember that everyday. Nothing is ever a failure as long as you've learned something from it. If you don't try you can't succeed or fail and then there is no learning without learning there is no success. The synonym for Success is HARD WORK. Everyone wants to be an instant millionaire. It just most of the time doesn't work that way. It may seem it to the outsiders when they see someone that seems to have become successful in a flash but if you read between the lines it most often has been in the workings and being prepared for for quite a while. Everyone's internal goals for success are always there inside you. Some people call them pipe dreams.. those that are lucky enough to take them seriously and work to achieve them usually are successful. Those that don't believe in themselves and don't want to put the hard work in probably won't. Being successful is very hard work and most people just don't want to work that hard!
Sales at Bill Estes Group
6 年An excellent perspective. All visions must be tested to prove their validity. The true path will then be radiated and shine through as pure as gold, just as the errant ones are consumed. Therefore we must observe with great diligence, so that we can learn the correct path.
Assembler at World Class Industries
6 年Thank you ??