Failure - A reason to Change

Dear Friends,

FAILURE IS A BLESSING WHEN IT PUSHES US OUT OF A CUSHIONED SEAT OF SELF-SATISFACTION AND FORCES US TO DO SOMETHING USEFUL.

If you carefully study your own life and those of achievers whom you admire, it is an absolute certainty you will discover that your greatest opportunities often occurred during times of adversity. It is only when faced with the possibility of failure that we are willing to deal with radical change and take the risks that lead to great success.

When you experience temporary failure and you know that it is temporary, you can capitalize on the opportunities adversity always brings. It all depends on the individual and his take on accepting failure in a positive manner.

If everything we attempted in life were achieved with a minimum of effort and came out exactly as planned, how little we would learn-and how boring life would be! And how arrogant we would become if we succeeded at everything we attempted.

Failure allows us to develop the essential quality of humility. It is not easy (when you are the person experiencing failure) to accept it philosophically, serene in the knowledge that this is one of life's great learning experiences. But it is.

Nature's ways are not always easily understood, but they are repetitive and therefore predictable. You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

regards,

B

Don't Give Up

Dear Friends,

I BELIEVE, EDISON FAILED 10,000 TIMES BEFORE PERFECTING THE INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LIGHTBULB.
DON'T WORRY IF YOU FAIL ONCE.

Arguably America's greatest inventor, Thomas Edison had an extraordinarily positive perception of life that greatly enhanced his ability as an inventory. When others might have been hopelessly discouraged after failing thousands of times in an attempt to develop an electric light, the great Edison simply viewed each unsuccessful experiment as the elimination of a solution that wouldn't work, thereby moving him that much closer to a successful solution.

We could all take a lesson from Edison. Stories abound about inventors who quit trying and gave up too soon or miners who struck gold just a few feet beyond where someone else quit digging. There are few obstacles in life that will not succumb to consistent, sustained, intelligent, positive action. When you are discouraged after you've failed at something, remember Edison's 10,000 failures before he arrived at the solution that forever changed the world.

I am sure that this would change our lives. Failure is a reality and we only learn through failure thus don't fear but look at the same in the positive light and you will succeed.


Cheers,

B

CHANGE-Beautiful indeed

Dear Friends,

Please excuse me if you find this a bit too dragging.

What happens when people particularly some of your best colleagues in your organization leave - They leave a vacuum behind or atleast that's what we feel for sometime when they are gone (especially if the person has a combining exemplary professional skills with a sweet nature and gentle character). Life has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start getting comfortable with a person, place or a situation, something comes along to alter the recipe - A terrific neighbour moves away, someone in the family graduates and moves, a child finds new love and loyalties through marraige or the family's principle bread winner is laid off. There have been various such cases but its a matter of time and LIFE is normal again.

To a great degree, our ability to cope with change and disruption determines happiness and contentment in life.

But how do we do that?

Based on a philosophers thought, comfort can be found in remembering that "to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven" - Let TODAY embrace the past with remembrance, and the future with longing.

I believe that SURVIVABILITY depends upon ADAPTABILITY. The answer to life's problem can be summed up in four words: "Go with the FLOW"

Once I read something in a surfer's column, which I had recorded in my book - "Its like surfing; you can't organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride them where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you're always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get. But mostly, ypu just take them the way they come".
I"m not exactly sure, but I thought that the surfer meant "Life is a series of events" - Both good and bad. No matter how smart our organizational skills are, there will always be life influencing factors over which we have no control. The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to make adjustment should the need arise - as it almost always does.

That doesn't mean, we don't keep trying to make all our dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren't exactly in our plan, we work around them and then we move on. Ofcourse, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take on than OTHERS. But the principle is the same.

A famous philosopher, Thomas Carlyle once said "Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful. And if memories have its force and worth, so also has HOPE"

SO, rather than dwelling in something that is painful, let's focus on our HOPES for a brighter future. And then we'll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen.

UNTIL our plans change - AGAIN.


Cheers to CHANGE