"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."~George Bernard Shaw
Are you attached to your burdens? Sometimes we grow to accept our burdens and then don't get rid of them, but keep them attached to us. Is that you? Are you keeping that burden attached to you?
Sometimes we keep our burdens because we got some kind of feedback from others. Realize that we keep our burdens attached because we are getting some kind of benefit from holding on to it. Sometimes we keep them just to see if anyone cares enough about us to help us. LET IT GO NOW!
"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." ~Theodore N. Vail
Are you allowing those imaginary difficulties to keep you down? "Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." Yes, real difficulties CAN be overcome. It's the trash in your head that is unconquerable. Wow, it all comes back to what we think. "No thought lives in your mind rent-free." What are you paying for the thoughts that you have? Is it costing you or are you getting a return on your investment for what you think?
Action:
Realize that the biggest problems that you will face today are the imaginary ones, not the real ones. Lose you attachment to your burdens. It's your choice!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Success Is A Lousy Teacher
"Success is a lousy teacher.
It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." ~Bill
Gates
Have you been successful before? Are you successful now? Have you found that you learn more from success or more from failure? Why is it that our society so deeply frowns on failure?
What is failure? How do you describe it? How do you feel about it? To me, failure is nothing more than feedback. It's telling me that what I'm doing isn't working and I need to change the strategy or the direction that I was going. Most people when they fail, either quit or "try harder." Are you "trying harder" but getting the same results?
Einstein said that "Doing the same thing over and expecting a different result was insanity." Yet how many people do you know that are doing that? Are you just doing the same thing over and over? STOP NOW!
Success is a lousy teacher. Why do you think so many championship teams don't make it back to the championship game? Their success didn't teach them to be better, they didn't have the same hunger and with everybody trying to beat the champs, their success wasn't able to allow them to be prepared for the new challenges.
Most of you reading this are smart...Don't let your success make you think that you can't lose.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Have you been successful before? Are you successful now? Have you found that you learn more from success or more from failure? Why is it that our society so deeply frowns on failure?
What is failure? How do you describe it? How do you feel about it? To me, failure is nothing more than feedback. It's telling me that what I'm doing isn't working and I need to change the strategy or the direction that I was going. Most people when they fail, either quit or "try harder." Are you "trying harder" but getting the same results?
Einstein said that "Doing the same thing over and expecting a different result was insanity." Yet how many people do you know that are doing that? Are you just doing the same thing over and over? STOP NOW!
Success is a lousy teacher. Why do you think so many championship teams don't make it back to the championship game? Their success didn't teach them to be better, they didn't have the same hunger and with everybody trying to beat the champs, their success wasn't able to allow them to be prepared for the new challenges.
Most of you reading this are smart...Don't let your success make you think that you can't lose.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Monday, January 21, 2013
There Are No Mistakes!
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." ~Richard Bach
Our society has programmed us to believe that mistakes and failures are to be avoided AT ALL COSTS. This is just plain wrong. How will we ever learn and grow if not from our mistakes and failures. I choose to look at failures as feedback, nothing more, nothing less. It is showing me that what I'm doing is not the best way to do whatever it is that I'm doing. It is a necessary thing we must go through to get to where we want to go.
We have learned to castigate failures, to scorn them, laugh at them, put them down...With these actions tied into failure, it's easy to see why our society tells us to avoid it at all costs. But what if we ALL looked at failure as the feedback that we need to do things better? Now that's not so bad is it.
Thomas Watson, founder of IBM said that "The fastest way to success is to fail faster." But if we are avoiding failure, then the opportunity for success remains at a distance.
Work on seeing what you might call "failure" as feedback. And see how it affects your frame of mind and thought process.
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
Friday, March 12, 2010
Double Your Rate of Failure
“Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.”~Thomas J. Watson
Double your failure rate!!! I bet you never heard that from a teacher. We have been taught that failure is BAD, WRONG, it means you are STUPID. We've been taught wrong. We need to be free to fail, not have all these labels if we don't get it right the first time. We've been taught that failure is the enemy, but it isn't.
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure...Make all you can, another thing teachers never told us. I wonder why??
Personally, I don't believe in failure, it just doesn't exist. We don't fail, we just get results. They may not be the results that we are looking for, but they are results or feedback...not failure. If we don't get the results that we want, just start over and work until you get the results you want. Failure never enters into the equation!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
“Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.”
Double your failure rate!!! I bet you never heard that from a teacher. We have been taught that failure is BAD, WRONG, it means you are STUPID. We've been taught wrong. We need to be free to fail, not have all these labels if we don't get it right the first time. We've been taught that failure is the enemy, but it isn't.
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure...Make all you can, another thing teachers never told us. I wonder why??
Personally, I don't believe in failure, it just doesn't exist. We don't fail, we just get results. They may not be the results that we are looking for, but they are results or feedback...not failure. If we don't get the results that we want, just start over and work until you get the results you want. Failure never enters into the equation!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
“Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.”
Friday, January 22, 2010
Failure NO, Feedback YES
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." ~Richard Bach
Our society has programmed us to believe that mistakes and failures are to be avoided AT ALL COSTS. This is just plain wrong. How will we ever learn and grow if not from our mistakes and failures. I choose to look at failures as feedback, nothing more, nothing less. It is showing me that what I'm doing is not the best way to do whatever it is that I'm doing.
We have learned to castigate failures, to scorn them, laugh at them, put them down...With these actions tied into failure, it's easy to see why our society tells us to avoid it at all costs. But what if we ALL looked at failure as the feedback that we need to do things better? Now that's not so bad is it.
Thomas Watson, founder of IBM said that "The fastest way to success is to fail faster." But if we are avoiding failure, then the opportunity for success remains at a distance.
Work on seeing what you might call "failure" as feedback. And see how it affects your frame of mind and thought process.
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
Our society has programmed us to believe that mistakes and failures are to be avoided AT ALL COSTS. This is just plain wrong. How will we ever learn and grow if not from our mistakes and failures. I choose to look at failures as feedback, nothing more, nothing less. It is showing me that what I'm doing is not the best way to do whatever it is that I'm doing.
We have learned to castigate failures, to scorn them, laugh at them, put them down...With these actions tied into failure, it's easy to see why our society tells us to avoid it at all costs. But what if we ALL looked at failure as the feedback that we need to do things better? Now that's not so bad is it.
Thomas Watson, founder of IBM said that "The fastest way to success is to fail faster." But if we are avoiding failure, then the opportunity for success remains at a distance.
Work on seeing what you might call "failure" as feedback. And see how it affects your frame of mind and thought process.
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
A New Look at Defeat
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." ~Robert South
How do you view defeat? How do you react? Are you discouraged or revived with a feeling of "I can do it better next time?"
What would happen if everyone looked at defeat as "a learning experience?" How much further would we be in our businesses, our relationships, our life?
The challenge here is to get away from the thought patterns that defeat means that we can't do what we attempted? Thomas Edison was defeated 10,000 time in trying to make a light bulb work but he viewed it as 10,000 ways that it wouldn't work, not as he was defeated.
When you suffer a defeat, give yourself 5 minutes to "hash, re-hash, and bitch." Then take the time to see what went wrong so the next time you will do it better.
Remember that there is no defeat until you give up. That is defeat. But just as there is no failure, only feed back, there is no defeat, only learning experiences.
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
How do you view defeat? How do you react? Are you discouraged or revived with a feeling of "I can do it better next time?"
What would happen if everyone looked at defeat as "a learning experience?" How much further would we be in our businesses, our relationships, our life?
The challenge here is to get away from the thought patterns that defeat means that we can't do what we attempted? Thomas Edison was defeated 10,000 time in trying to make a light bulb work but he viewed it as 10,000 ways that it wouldn't work, not as he was defeated.
When you suffer a defeat, give yourself 5 minutes to "hash, re-hash, and bitch." Then take the time to see what went wrong so the next time you will do it better.
Remember that there is no defeat until you give up. That is defeat. But just as there is no failure, only feed back, there is no defeat, only learning experiences.
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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