Before we can discuss failure, let’s quickly cover what is Real Success according to Dr. John Maxwell:
Becoming a REAL Success:
Relationships: The ability to get along with others. They either make or break your success.
Equipping: Those people close to you determine your success or your failure.
Attitude: Your attitude, more than your aptitude (what you know), will determine your altitude (how high you will go).
Leadership: Everything rises and falls with Leadership. Your ability to be a success is determined by how you increase your leadership skills.
What is the Main Difference between People who Achieve and People who are Average?
Is it your Family Background? Many people that are successful are from broken homes.
Story of my trip last week to the orphanages in Ethiopia.
Is it your wealth? No, there are many people throughout
history that come from nothing to become something.
Texas Lottery Example
Opportunity? Opportunity is determined by who is looking at the situation. 2 people can look at the situation in two different ways.
High morals? Unfortunately, this is not the case. Many people with high morals are not successful. And many people with low morals are successful.
The absence of hardship? Helen Keller example.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AVERAGE PEOPLE AND ACHIEVING
PEOPLE IS THEIR PERCEPTION OF AND RESPONSE TO FAILURE.
Why do we fear failure?
Culture has done this to us.
Why do we misunderstand failure?If you fail at something are you thus a “failure.” Is failure a single event or is it a process?
Why are we unprepared for failure?
Why do we assume that our idea will be approved, or we will get the promotion, or we will get the raise, or we will succeed at this task, without any preparation of failure?
What if I were to tell you that Failure is more common than success?
There are more people today in poverty than wealth.
Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
25,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Only one in five of those who enroll in two-year institutions earn an associate degree within three years, and only two in five of those who start four-year colleges complete their degrees within six years.
So, during this leadership sessions we are going to talk about failure. It is not if you are going to fail in something during your life, it is when you fail. Are you going to Fail Forward or Fail Backwards?
If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?
Failing Backwards Failing Forward
Blaming others Taking
responsibility
Repeating the
Same Mistakes Learning
from Each Mistake
Expecting
never to Fail Again Knowing
Failure is a Part of Progress
Expecting to
Continually Fail Maintaining
a Positive Attitude
Accepting
Traditional Blindly Challenging
Outdated Assumptions
Being Limited
by Past Mistakes Taking
new risks
Thinking, “I am a failure” Believing something didn’t work
Quitting Persevering
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