Intellectually, you know that to win big in sports, business, or life in general, you have to risk failure. Master salesman, Tom Watson, said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." If you look back at history you'll find, in success after success, great stories of failures. You know it is an essential part of success, but you don't like it. Well, it may not feel good and sometimes it might not seem safe to take a risk, but if you want to get anywhere really new and exciting you must do it. And, guess what, sometimes your efforts will fail. The key is to learn from them. Pick yourself, your team or your organization up dust yourself off, and start all over again.
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Want more inspiration for the power of failure? Read "Why Failure is Good for Success" published by Success Magazine.
Go on...what do you have to lose?
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