Can failure be successful?
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
— Napoleon Hill
If you think you’ve failed and give up, then you’ve probably judged the situation appropriately. But if you think you’ve failed and you try again or look with new eyes, then perhaps you’ve successfully failed. In an attempt to create glue that would never come unstuck, researchers developed an adhesive that was so “low-tack” it could actually be unstuck and re-stuck. NOT what they were looking for. Six years later, Art Fry looked at that “failure to stick” with new eyes: Continue reading » Successful Failure???
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
— Chinese Proverb
Today is the one year anniversary of my “new job.” I’m amazed at how much this experience has changed me.
I have developed and delivered training for about 15 years. Although one can always learn, most projects I’ve been involved with don’t really stretch me. Yes, I have to learn about the topic I’m working on, but because I’m very good at learning new businesses and the software systems that run that specific business, it’s usually a joyful and fun experience. Learning new businesses is something I Continue reading » Persistently Stubborn
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
— Dr. Seuss
There’s a very old joke that goes, “Where does insanity come from? You get it from your parents (or kids or cousins or siblings – in other words, family).” And everyone laughs, ruefully – because underneath every good joke is some truth. We do get our insanity from our families.
We also get our growth from them, too – if we choose to. Families are like incubators. There’s plenty of light and heat, which can hatch all kinds of Continue reading » Where Does Insanity Come From?
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
— Napoleon Hill
I am constantly amazed at how bad my memory is. Not in the sense of being unable to remember names or phone numbers, but rather in the sense of quickly forgetting important lessons that I’ve learned.
One of the best examples I can give you is my inability to remember good ideas I’ve gotten from the books I’ve read or listened to. With my two hour commute – one hour in each direction – I’m spending a fair amount of time listening to good books and classes. I will be driving along listening to Continue reading » Productive OR Counter-productive?
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
Do you believe that you are a learning and growing being? Back in the beginning of the self-esteem movement, many proponents recommended that you repeat an affirmation to help you improve your self-esteem. It went, “Everyday, in every way, I’m getting better and better.” To say that this became the basis of jokes about self-esteem is to understate how much of a Continue reading » Better and Better
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