Facing Failure
Failure is one of the most demoralising emotions that a man can ever faced. It zaps your energy and enthuasiasm, excitement for things around you and robs your hope and joy for the things yet to come. Yet many times, it's one of the most common feelings that a man will ever encounter in the daily lives.
I had this feeling again recently when I just came back from a project site. My company had won the bid for the first phase of the project site and recently we just lost out for the second phase of the project. When I popped in to have a look at our competitors' product and workmanship, I can't help but feel dissapointed and envy that why we didnt came up with those ideas and designs in the first place. On our way back, my colleague and I were both very quiet in the car - thinking over and over again about what we saw and what we deemed as a failure on our part to come out with a better solution.
Well, failure can come in many forms in our lives - whether big or small. Does this incidences sounds familiar ?
- When my friends seems to be able to get what they wanted so easily (e.g. handphones, cars, houses, material stuff) yet I'm still struggling to to even pay off all my debts
- When my friends gets good grades in their studies despite not studying hard. I get average results despite slogging hard, day and night and losing many hours of sleep.
- When we always seems to have a string of bad luck while others seems to strike it right time and time again in their businesses or careers.
I'm sure there are many more tings in life that causes us to be very dissapointed and cause us want to give up many times. But I always learn from John Maxwell in his excellent book "Failing Forward" that if we want to fail, always make sure we learn from the failure and improve it from the next time. I always reminded myself that Thomas Edison failed more than 1000 times before he invented his first light bulb. I also take heart from the fact that many successful business men and women who dropped out of high schools but they never give up in life.
So, I guess when faced with these types of circumstances, we always gotta remind ourselves to never, never, never give up and just continue to move forward. Well, life goes on and our hearts will go on .... let's continue to fail forward ...
I had this feeling again recently when I just came back from a project site. My company had won the bid for the first phase of the project site and recently we just lost out for the second phase of the project. When I popped in to have a look at our competitors' product and workmanship, I can't help but feel dissapointed and envy that why we didnt came up with those ideas and designs in the first place. On our way back, my colleague and I were both very quiet in the car - thinking over and over again about what we saw and what we deemed as a failure on our part to come out with a better solution.
Well, failure can come in many forms in our lives - whether big or small. Does this incidences sounds familiar ?
- When my friends seems to be able to get what they wanted so easily (e.g. handphones, cars, houses, material stuff) yet I'm still struggling to to even pay off all my debts
- When my friends gets good grades in their studies despite not studying hard. I get average results despite slogging hard, day and night and losing many hours of sleep.
- When we always seems to have a string of bad luck while others seems to strike it right time and time again in their businesses or careers.
I'm sure there are many more tings in life that causes us to be very dissapointed and cause us want to give up many times. But I always learn from John Maxwell in his excellent book "Failing Forward" that if we want to fail, always make sure we learn from the failure and improve it from the next time. I always reminded myself that Thomas Edison failed more than 1000 times before he invented his first light bulb. I also take heart from the fact that many successful business men and women who dropped out of high schools but they never give up in life.
So, I guess when faced with these types of circumstances, we always gotta remind ourselves to never, never, never give up and just continue to move forward. Well, life goes on and our hearts will go on .... let's continue to fail forward ...
posted by Terry Lau at 6:49 PM
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