There's this scene in one of the Rocky
films, in which Sylvester Stallone is
talking to his son, following a heated
argument in the middle of a street. And
he says this to his son at the end of
this conversation, he says, "Let me tell
you something you already know. The world
ain't all sunshine and rainbows, it's a
very mean and nasty place, and I don't
care how tough you are, it will beat you
to your knees and keep you there
permanently, if you let it. You, me, nobody
gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain't
about how hard you hit, it's about how
hard you can get hit and keep moving
forward, how much you can take and keep
moving forward,
that is how winning is done!" Now this
reminds me of something that Charles
Swindell noted, in that life is 10% what
happens to you, and 90% how we react to
it. You see, to experience any success,
some failure has to come before the
experience of success, because you can't
possibly do what needs to be done to be
successful if you aren't willing to fail.
You have to be able to embrace failure,
and also be persistent throughout those
experiences because if there's one thing
I've learned through my own journey, it
is this, failure, setbacks, obstacles, in
the grand scheme of things, none of that
matters, what truly does, is how you see
them, how you interpret them, and how you
react to them. It's by focusing on one of
the things that is in your control, which
is your attitude, your attitude to the
event, to what happens in your life.
It's what Stallone said in that Rocky
film, it's about how hard you can get hit
and keep moving forward. Making friends
with failure, and being persistent in
your journey, because when you focus on
what you can't control, you become
paralyzed by force, but when you focus on
what you can control, not only do you
begin to feel more empowered, but action
fuels you. 90 percent of people give up
right before they are about to succeed,
don't let that be you. Don't give up,
don't give in too soon. Be persistent.
Push through those obstacles, challenges,
and failures. Because let me tell you
something right now, there are two
failures in life: the first is never
testing your ideas for words or insights
because you're waiting until that
perfect moment, you're waiting until
things are a 100 percent ready for you.
The second type of failure is this, being
bold, adventurous, and experimental. Now
the first teaches you nothing, and often
becomes the biggest regret of many.
However when you fail in the second, you
learn valuable lessons about yourself
and deepen your wisdom so that you can
come back stronger wiser, and with more
insights than before you have begun. And
this is one of the reasons why failure
and persistence are powerful
characteristics and traits of the most
successful individuals and businesses
in society. Because you learn less from
just thinking about getting into action,
but more from the actual doing. I'm not
sure if you've heard about this
fascinating statistic, about Kobe Bryant,
one of the greatest basketball players
of all time.
Who also happens to hold the record for
the most misses, at an incredibly
staggering 14,481. That's nearly
15,000 misses in his entire basketball
history.
Here's the lesson, if someone is better
than you, or something further ahead than
you at something.
It is likely that they have
failed more times than you have, because
it is through those failures that they are
growing, it is through those failures
that they become talented, because it's
the mistakes that teach them, that
failure can often be life's greatest
teacher. They succeed simply because they
kept going while everyone else took the
easy option of quitting. And before I
finish this video, I want to leave you
with a powerful quote by JK Rowling, an
author that got rejected so many times
by publishers, before she finally got
accepted and got her novels around the
Harry Potter series published.
She says, "it is impossible to live
without failing at something, unless you
have lived so cautiously that you might
as well not have lived at all." So here's
my question to you, what are you going to
fail at this week? And how are you going
to expand your comfort zone? Thank you
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