Monday, September 22, 2008

POSITIVE ASPECTS OF FAILURE

Business, Home Business.

Home business failure is the key to your success - have you ever wondered if what you know about home business is accurate? Each mistake teaches us something. " (Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido) Thomas Alva Edison failed in his experiment for thousands of times before he was able to invent the electric light bulb. Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on home business. "Failure is the key to success.


Laurence Peter failed when more than 20 publishers rejected his book, "The Peter Principle, " before it became a best - seller. - the truth is, all the aforementioned great people failed. but they were not failures. Abraham Lincoln failed the bar exam, failed in several business ventures, and failed in six major elections before he was finally elected president. Their actions may have failed but not their very selves, definitely not their spirits. The same can be said about any endeavor that we get into, your home business for instance. In fact, they used those" failed moments" as a challenge, as a key to their success.


Are you failing in your home business? - what did you do? Have you ever failed? Did you wallow in self - pity and blame everyone for your fall? POSITIVE ASPECTS OF FAILURE. Or did you choose to be positive about it? Many people fail to realize that" failure" in itself is not really a bad thing.


However, they did not see those experiences as a bane but as a boon. - in fact, most of those people who have found success - - - whether in their business or personal lives - - - went through a series of failures. They learned from their mistakes, and they used, from their failures these lessons to try and try again until they attained success. In business, you encounter various, as in life changes and challenges. Here are some positive aspects of failure: Failure can actually mean that you are broadening your goals and undertaking fresh challenges. Do you welcome such changes and challenges and see how you can improve your life through these?


That' s exactly the point. - or do you merely sulk and reject these because you are already comfortable with the status quo and you do not want to take any risk? People who take the challenge face the risk of failure, but they also accept the opportunity to succeed. You content yourself with setting" low goals" because you are afraid of failure. Indeed, not failing may mean that you refuse to aim high and broaden your goals. In the end, the irony of it all is that you may be failing even more because you have already lost the chance of success when you chose to do nothing about it. How far are you willing to go?


Failure can be a good test of persistence and perseverance. - how much are you willing to take? However, a person who has the makings of a true successful person will persevere. Truly, much easier to, it is much quit when you fail. He will use whatever lessons he has learned from past mistakes and actually turn his failure into success. Don' t quit. Is your business failing?


If you do, you actually admit defeat and you are already accepting that you are a failure. - instead, look at it as an opportunity - - - to learn, to aspire for, to grow more. Do not look at failure as something to shun or be afraid of. Consider failure as a significant part of your life, because life demands that we act, move, participate. But this only proves that we are actually doing our share. And in so doing, we take the risk of failing.


Now that we' ve covered those aspects of home business, let' s turn to some of the other factors that need to be considered. - now that you are aware of the positive aspects of failing, you are ready to apply these in your business or your personal life. FAILING SUCCESSFULLY. Here are some ways to transform that failure into success: 1) Fail honestly. However, make sure that you are not accepting defeat and you are not looking at yourself as a failure. 2) Fail intelligently. Sincerely acknowledge that you failed - - - in that particular endeavor, for that time.


Take advantage of a failed endeavor. - analyze what went wrong. Evaluate the experience. Learn from such experience. 3) Fail courageously. Instead, extract more courage from such failed endeavor and be ready to try again, to make things better the next time. Do not use such failure as an alibi for quitting. THE KEY TO UNLOCK YOUR SUCCESS.


As discussed earlier, we have the power to turn failure into success. - there are numerous reasons why endeavors, such as home businesses, fail. Take note, that we can, however allow failure to do two things - - - to lock the door towards our success or to serve as a key to open the door and lead us to our success. Or will you use it to unlock and open the very same door that it had locked? Will you allow failure to lock that precious door? Here are some of those factors: LOCKED: Unclear business plan. A business plan is the very foundation of your business.


UNLOCK IT: Write out in detail a business plan that is clear, and goal, complete - oriented. - remember that failing to plan is tantamount to planning to fail. UNLOCK IT: Formulate your goals and focus on them. LOCKED: Unclear goals. How will you achieve something if you are not sure of what you really want to achieve? UNLOCK IT: Clearly define your target market.


LOCKED: No specified target market. - by desiring to sell to everyone, you may end up selling to no one at all. Oftentimes, success is the sweet fruit that you reap after toiling with failure. Truly, only a handful of people succeed easily. It can be the key to your success. But the question is: Do we use failure to make us better? Yes, we all experience failure in our lives.


Or do we just choose to be bitter? - even if you don' t know everything, you' ve done something worthwhile: you' ve expanded your knowledge. So now you know a little bit about home business.

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