"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better." ~Wendell Phillips
Is that the way your view Defeat or Failure? It's not that way for most people. I had a chance to experience this first hand...as someone objected to my posts and reported me to Facebook. Interesting...it has required me to re-write this post and make it even better!
Defeat is nothing more than an education. It is nothing more than a learning experience. Do you see that when things don't go your way? Do you see that when you experience the thing that we call failure? I hope so. Henry Ford said that "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Now that's the way to look at defeat/failure. Don Shula said, "Failure is never final." Do you look at failure that way? Too many people give up when they face failure and giving up is THE ONLY WAY to failure!
Defeat is nothing more than the first step to something better. Wow, can you look at defeat that way? I'm sure that is the way that Edison looked at his invention of the light bulb. He focused on what it would do for the world and not that it took him so many times to figure it out. What are you focusing on, the defeat or the learning experience?
How do you look at defeat or failure? If you are having trouble overcoming a past defeat, realize that something better awaits you...only if you are looking for it. We get what we are expecting and what we look for. If you get bad stuff and it keeps happening, STOP looking for and expecting it. Change your focus!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."
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