Kathryn Sandford shares 7 things that are keeping you from being successful.
Success always starts with failure. Successful people tell their stories about how they failed and how they turned these failures into successes, and one day, you will, too. If you find yourself asking, “Why do I keep failing?” then keep reading.
Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is courage that counts.” Our courage is born from the actions we choose to take when we face our failures and we reflect on what we have learned.
The path to success is not straightforward, and getting things right all the time is not realistic or helpful. Failure is a learning experience that shows us how not to do things, and it gives us the opportunity to keep fixing what we are doing wrong until we get it right.
Your failures are your learning opportunities. Thomas Edison said,
I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
He did find one way that did work for one of his famous inventions, and that was the electric lamp.
Failure offers you the opportunity to grow, to become wiser and smarter than you were before. However, if you are not using the opportunities that your failures offer you, then you will never be able to achieve the success you want in life.
