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Mistakes Power Change

23/02/11COMMENTS 2

Failure leads to change.

If you combine failure with determination and persistence and the attitude that you will do whatever it takes, you will go straight to success.

Listen, if you really want to know the truth, I’ve made thousands of mistakes over the years. In fact, I’ve been knocked down more times than I can count. The real trick to life is to get up after you’ve been knocked down.

I actually don’t think there is anything wrong with getting knocked down, it happens to all of us at some point. What’s wrong is when you don’t get back up. Sure it hurts and we all hate it, but you learn to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

So I’ll say it again …

Failure and mistakes lead to extraordinary change.

I ran across a very interesting blog post yesterday by Bud Bilanich. In his blog he outlines 50 people who failed before they became successful. Here are a few of my favorites from Bud’s blog …

• Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times.
• The Beetles were rejected by the Decca Recording Company who proclaimed: “‘We don’t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.
• Early in her career, Oprah was fired from her job as a television reporter because she was “unfit for tv.”
• The manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired Elvis Presley after just one performance telling him, “You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.”
• In Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”
• Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social.
• Western Union rejected the telephone when Alexander Graham Bell offered them the rights of manufacture and distribution. They considered the technology as having too many shortcomings.
• A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas. After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn’t last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure.
• R.H. Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City.
• Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade. Churchill was also hounded by periods of manic depression.
• Milton Hershey experienced bankruptcy in his pursuit as the “chocolate king.”
• H.J. Heinz saw his newborn company forced into liquidation.
• Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. His first business called Traf-O-Data failed.

Now let’s take a look at the way a few people have turned around their mistakes:

• Thomas Edison “reportedly tried over 2,000 different experiments before he got the first incandescent light bulb to work. When a reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times he replied, ‘I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.’”
• Walt Disney once said, “Never forget that all this started with a mouse.”

Now what do all these people have in common?

They trusted their intuition. They KNEW that they would be a success because their intuition told them to not give up and keep going. Your intuition is like a compass that shows you what direction you should be going. They also never gave up. They did whatever it took to be a success, and it worked.

They exhibited the three keys to lasting change …

1. CHANGE – You must be willing to change

2. DETERMINATION — NEVER EVER give up, no matter what. Do whatever it takes.

3. INTUITION — Trust your intuition! All of the people in the above examples trusted what their intuition was telling them. What if they hadn’t? Can you imagine a life without Hershey Chocolate?

Until next time!

Katharine Giovanni