What if I tell you that failure is a training course for
success? What if I say that I have first hand experience and also in all my
research, I have come to realise that those who failed greatly ended up to have
succeed greatly in life? I want you to understand that “It is a blessing to
have failed once in life. For every failure helps trigger off lines of successes.”
Failure is not a curse; it is a blessing, as long as you learn how to manage
the lessons learnt in failure. Like great minds in the past once said, “every
time you fall, make sure you pick up something.” I advice you to pick up
experience, learn how not to fail by failing. Failure anytime, anywhere is a
course, study it and achieve outstanding success.
I believe failure is
a training ground for all who have adventure at heart. Wise men never accept
failure as defeat, for they believe there are always lessons to learn from a
very great fall. I know that lessons learnt from failure help make decisions
that help make great success possible. Sure enough in every labour there is
profit. Even if you fail in your labour, there is still profit as long as you
learn from the failed labour. Failure is only a question of attitude.
A man failed an examination once and learnt a few lessons on
which he based his vow not to fail again or to achieve success at all cause.
Thomas Edison’s failures helped him discovered what wouldn’t work and drew him
closer to the success that was possible. Failure in itself is a blessing that
if we stick to the ropes will give us success.
When a man seeks for success and encounter setbacks instead,
he has not failed, the truth is that life just handed to him a golden stable
for success. Yeah, that is what failure is. Failure is the stable of success.
There was no success that wasn’t bred in this stable. When a man finds failure
while looking for success, he just found himself a pathway to success.
I want you to think about it. Every setbacks of what we call
failure, that you have ever encountered before now was a gift of success handed
over to you by nature. If you will only pay a little attention to the failures
you encounter, you will see success expose in all its fragilities. If you think
you have failed, think again, it is not failure, it is the necessary training
you need to achieve success. Every failure is a gift, stop seeing failure has
evil, it is your stepping stone to huge success.
Reading through my book The Truth & Lies of Failure
again last week, I was shocked by the following line, “To fail early in life
is to develop hope of success; to fail in the middle of life is to have a grip
on success and to fail late in life is a wisdom test of true hope and
determination.” (books by Austin Imoru could be found at www.finelinespub.com).
Of a truth to succeed tremendously we need wisdom tested by
hope. Those who did not know the pains of waiting for huge success might pass
success by on their way to seek success and will not know that success is often
dressed up in the garments of failure which only determination can uncover.
Hope is the necessary tool that uncovers success anytime. Like some great wise
men declared in time past, “hope and refuse to quit because your success might
be in the next bend.”
Let me speak to you directly, those who have tasted failure
and who gave up for the fear of failing again, never find success. Those who
tasted failure and made a stable out of it will find success smiling at them.
The stable is a place of learning. You must learn from your failures. Refuse to
give up when it seems like you have failed. Look at the situation again with
the intention of giving it a meaning and there you will find true success.
Beside, success without a marching story will not be success afterall. All successes
have corresponding stories thus we have his-story.
I will leave you with the advice of Samuel Beckett “Ever
tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” And at
the end record will show that you never failed, you only navigated your way
through what will not work and find the true path to success.
