Key #2. Success is remembered
All to often we are quick to forget our success, and to fast to remember our failures. We tend to think only in what did not happen, and not what did happen.
You hear it all the time, people telling you about an event or function a job or anything else, and they will tell you where they failed. Failure is part of success, we need to fail to grow and to succeed, and any one who tells you they never fail, is a liar!
I have started many small companies, and non as-of-yet are what the world would call a “success”. But to me, they all where. Maybe not in the money side of things… but they toughed me more then any school ever could on how a company works (or in my case don’t work). To me they have made me a better person! To me they were SUCCESSFUL….
You need to look at everything you do as one way to make you a better person, to learn from it and move on, do not carry with you the “should haves” and “could haves” leave them behind, and only bring forward the “I learned” “I did” and other positives.
In your life their can be no room for failures, only success!
Yes, not every thing will turn out the way you want it to, but that don’t make it a failure unless you want it to be. Make it what it really is a SUCCESS!
Start today, look back on what potential success you have over looked, write them down and post them around you, to help you Remember Success!
Paul
A friend once told me to keep a book of Affirmation. Take a scrap book and you start from the back posting the most newest thing in front of everything else. In this book you keep those certificates of accomplishment, note friends write telling you how wonderful you are, pictures of successful moments. It would definitely help one remember their successes
Interesting –
But –
Your first and second points are basically the same. Look past our mistakes, and learn from our failures. The seeds of success are planted each time we fail. The first ingredient in our recipe to success is that first failure. Look past the failure and you are doomed to repeat it, look to the failure and you are apt to learn from it.
Everything will turn out EXACTLY the way you want it to, it just may not happen the first time. Positive attitude, a definite purpose with an emotional desire tied to it, a plan of action and a group of like minds to work with you – those are your 4 keys to success…
If you want to take a look-see this is something I wrote the other day…
http://yattitude.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/the-4-step-plan-to-success/
Benny