Own your Failures, Take action for Magnificent Success
Admit your failures, take credit for them, embrace them, and own them. When you willingly take responsibility and ownership even for the failures, you’re positioned for magnificent success.—Ralph Marston
How empowering is that statement? Let’s look at it again.
Admit your failures, take credit for them, embrace them, and own them. When you willingly take responsibility and ownership even for the failures, you’re positioned for magnificent success
That statement is practically overflowing with Action and Passion. All that about failure ? Until we are able to look ourselves in the mirror and own ourselves. Look into our own eyes at our imperfections of body and action and say that’s me. That is me now. Until we can do that we will never be in control of our lives, our time or our wealth.
We’ll continually act ignoring what our reality is. Acting on what we wish to be true.
There is only one reality the Present, your past is just the road that’s brought you there. Don’t keep looking over your shoulder, don’t keep hoping that your destination will magically appear around the next corner. You need to take each step as it comes. Until you realise that your mistakes are part of your journey, you’ll struggle to make any headway. You’ll sit on the side of your path looking back all the while as time passes you by.
When looking at failures in your life
Do:
Admit your failures, it’s the only way to free yourself from them, once you’ve admit a failure you release the emotions involved with it from your mind and keep the experience which will stand you in good stead
Embrace your failures. your failures are your battle scars they are the stories you’ll tell your kids and co-workers your failures are the things that improve you, doing the same things over correctly teaches you nothing.
Take responsibility and ownership for your failures, just because you suddenly feel positively about your failures doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences. Clean up the mess, figure out what went wrong put together a plan so it won’t happen, apologise if it’s impacted on anyone. Trying just isn’t enough.
Don’t:
Do it again! Well at the very least don’t fail exactly the same way or for the same reason again make sure you’ve learnt something.
Waste the chance for magnificent Success by quitting, your failures will in time teach you how to succeed don’t waste the lessons. Too many give up in the face of failure. Each failure brings you closer to magnificent success. Reach out and grab it.
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Michael,
Excellent practical advice. I’ve adopted Bob Proctor’s mantra: “I am responsible for my life, for my feelings, and for every result I get.”
EVERY! Good, bad, and in between. If it happened you had some part in causing it. Better to take full responsibility for it, learn from it, and move on.
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I love that as a mantra! For me Responsibility relates beautifully to capacity. The more we make ourselves responsible for the more we impact on and the more we can control. Far more empowering than wandering aimlessly hoping and turning a blind eye to our faults. For me the most empowering moment in my life was the moment I realized I was responsible for my unhappiness, which immediately meant happiness was by extension in my own hands too.
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