THE SCAR OF FAILURE IS UGLY AND PERMANENT
Every once in a while you will experience a tough, challenging day where everything seems to have gone wrong for you. Most times a simple thought, a song that randomly plays on the radio as you are driving your car, a simple idea that spontaneously pops into your head, a few simple words from a family member or a friend or even a rousing or stimulating quote can get you through that challenging, convoluted day. A few inspiring words said at the right time and in the right place can touch you, inform you, re-energize and even re-motivate you and your business but most of all these words can change and even transform your life instantly.
Inspiring words cannot only move you into action, they can also help de-program, re-program, redefine and redirect you back onto the right path. A few rousing words can re-ignite and refocus your dream of where you really want to be and who you really want to become. A few choice words can stimulate, encourage and arouse you to the point that you can take on the world without fear, trepidation, rejection, apprehension, defeat or regret.
Here is my message for you today. Read it two or three times for it’s a good one!
As your business grows and develops you will make many mistakes and experience many disappointments and you will probably feel that no one else has ever experienced your particular problems or difficulties. It will always be easy to say, "This is too hard. It’s going to take too much time, I just can’t do it anymore." And so you make the decision to surrender and quit. It’s always easier to quit than to persevere and keep trying. Remember this, quitting labels and brands you a loser. Do you really want this to be what you stand for?
Mistakes, rejection, disappointment and discouragement are predictable, foreseeable and inevitable; quitting is optional.
Never give up on anyone that you are working with, especially those members on your team. And that includes never giving up on yourself as a leader.
Never take your foot off the pedal just because your accomplishments have not met your expectations or been recognized or edified.
Quitting is much more painful than not finishing but the excruciating pain that comes from the regret of not starting or re-starting is unbearable. A distributor who fails to start is worse than a quitter.
You will have many opportunities and choices this year new year; don’t let abandonment or quitting be one of them.
It’s important to understand, if you don’t love what you are doing and your not doing what you love, you will eventually quit and what is quitting? Quitting is failing and what do you call people that fail – Failures! You never fail until you fail to start or you quit.
It’s interesting to me to hear people say, “If you are going to fail, fail with the dignity, that you gave it your best shot.” That’s total bunk. There is no dignity in failure, never has been, no matter how hard you tried. You either fail or you succeed, you either do it or you don’t; there is no middle ground. You start or you don’t, you stick it out or you quit, you win or you lose. If you quit, you’ve failed and that’s it. Failing is not failure until you quit. Quitting is a tragedy; therefore failure must too be a tragedy. You must not quit, not now, not ever. The pain of failure and its scar is ugly and permanent.
There will be times when discouragement will overwhelm you and you will think about quitting. When you think about quitting, simply sit down with a pad and a pen and ponder this question that you will ask yourself,
“What was it that motivated me to get started in my business in the first place?”
Give me five answers to this question and you will surprise yourself. There’s a job to be done and you are not a quitter, never have been, so reignite your attitude, re-engage, work harder, pursue your dream and have fun with your business. There is light at the end of the tunnel and it is the brightest light you will ever see.
One of the greatest tragedies is when people quit never realizing how close they were to succeeding.
Embrace your business and immerse yourself in it. Become a part of it, enjoy its challenges, learn from them and become the person you were meant to be and do what you were meant to do.
Your capacity for personal inspiration, courage, creativity and success is deeply reliant and rooted in the faith that you have in yourself and your abilities.
Courage is not an ominous word. It’s a virtue where you embrace and follow your faith. Courage is the most encouraging and optimistic word in a winner’s vocabulary. Courage affords you an invitation to grow, progress and to excel. With courage you can absolutely redirect your business and your life in a positive direction! You can do and be anything you want to be, if you have the desire and the determination to go forward and the mindset to never quit.
Don’t allow the words, can’t, impossible or failure to become a part of your vocabulary. It’s a new year; it’s your year. You have a powerful spark inside you, so go forward now and ignite that blazing inferno of enthusiasm and passion for you business.
What do success and failure have in common? You choose either one. What does a victim mentality and victory have in common? You also choose either one. Don’t choose to be a victim of failure, choose to be the recipient of success and celebrate your victory.
Love you all,
Tony.
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