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Why Failing Can Lead To Success

By on January 20, 2018

Most people are afraid of failure when they shouldn’t be. People let failure dictate how they live and by doing that, they never reach their full potential. In fact, failing leads to success.

I understand failing can be scary. You’re normal to think you shouldn’t want to fail. However, those who are successful are failing every day. That’s one of their secrets to success.

When you go through school, you’re told failing is bad and become discouraged from it. You take on this notion that failure is bad or you’ll be looked down upon if you fail.

What most people don’t realize is that failure will get you one step closer to success while also allowing you to become resilient. If you’re not failing, you will never get ahead.

I want you to understand that the person who fails the most and doesn’t give up will be successful. How? Because if you continue to put in the work no matter what happens, eventually you will achieve success.

Failure isn’t sexy. No one likes to fail. If you get back up after each failure, it will pay dividends.

If you’re not failing, how will you ever know how far you can actually go? Each of us has so much potential that never gets realized. You can achieve your wildest dreams if you’ll just allow yourself to fail.

When you achieve your desired success, how much sweeter is it going to be than if it was handed to you? By failing, your achievement will feel that much better.

Think of anyone who has become successful whether that’s Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison. They both failed, and they were never perfect but they let their failures take them to their greatest achievements. If they gave up at the first sight of failure, we would never know their names.

When you start on the path of failure, realize that you’re one step closer to success!

 Trevor Oldham

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