Failure: the key to success
FAILURE! Right I know, no one likes to talk about their failures. If you’re like most people, you probably have a bad relationship with failure. You see it as an ending, as proof that your plan didn’t work out or your ideas weren’t good enough.
Well, the truth is, failure happens to everyone. The only thing that separates people who succeed from those who don’t is a proper understanding of the power of failure. Success requires that you learn from your mistakes and move on without losing hope rather than falling into despair and giving up.
Failure is almost the only endeavor that consistently leads to success, growth, and advancement, it is the string which links each while you develop independently evolving towards success. If you keep going. So in short “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of any enthusiasm.”
Seth Godin who is 18-time bestselling author describes why entrepreneurs who fail more often perform better:
The rule is simple: The person who fails the most will win. If I fail more than you do, I will win. Because in order to keep failing, you’ve got to be good enough to keep playing.
So, if you fail cataclysmically and never play again, you only fail once. But if you are always there shipping, putting your work into the world, creating and starting things, you will learn endless things.
You will learn to see more accurately, you will learn the difference between a good idea and a bad idea and, most of all, you will keep producing.
Here, our biggest obstacle to success isn’t a failure but ourselves and our inability to admit to them. Failure can only be tackled if it is first understood and we are cognizant of it. Instead of fearing failure we must recognize and embrace it as a creative spark that has merely ruled out one possibility while enlightening us to the potential of alternative routes. Embracing failure as a part of the process which leads to achieving unprecedented success is difficult. It is even more challenging to ignore the noise that accompanies repeated failure. The constant chatter, criticism, and insults can be paralyzing. Overlooking this derision and fighting your way to success is the only way you can achieve anything of significance.
Success and failure are inexplicably linked. Successful failure can be measured in actions and what you have learned whereas failure without action leaves the possibility of regret.
If at first you don’t succeed, you’ll know you’re aiming high enough.
The simple truth is if you haven’t failed you haven’t tried hard enough or risked enough in your pursuit of achievement. When you do this you open yourself up to the possibility of dramatic and unprecedented success. If you haven’t failed you haven’t really lived.
Closing my blog with this beautiful verse of the Holy Qur’an. Allah tells us in the Holy Qur’an:
Allah is watching over us, no matter how sinful we are, He is there. Knowing that He is all around should give us some comfort. That whatever happens to us is what was meant to happen and that no matter how far we astray ourselves from Islam or Allah (s.w.t), He will always be with us and wanting the best for us. Therefore, we have to appreciate His blessings and be true believers and find solace in His presence.
Allah tells us in the Qur’an that we should not fear. He says:
“Do not be afraid; I am with you all the time, listening and seeing.” (Qur’an 20:46)
When the Creator of the universe is telling us that we should not fear, why should we be scared? Allah is with us all the time, through every hardship of ours, through every tear we cry. Allah sees everything. We should place our trust completely in Him. We should remember that this life is a test for us and it wasn’t meant to be perfect. When something negative happens to us we feel heartless and agitation. But this is not the end. All these ups and downs are part of life that we should accept. With that being said, see you till next blog.
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