Many of us are fearful of failure, when we should be embracing it; now I know that you are thinking I must be crazy, there’s allot of good reasons to feel fearful, like loosing your money, or loss of respect from your peers along with countless other reasons. But let me give you the upside to failure. Thomas Edison once said, “Hurry up and fail as fast as you can because the quicker you fail the faster you find success.” I guess the principal being taught here is that failure is a necessary part of success. Let us keep in mind that Edison had over 1700 failed experiments in his life.
Craig Groeschel made a statement that failure in not a person it is an event that takes place in ones life, Craig also goes on to talk about experiencing failure in small doses. Successful people have become masters of failure. I was watching an interview with billionaire Warren Buffet on television when he made a statement that in life you only need to win a few times to have overwhelming success and he himself laughed and made fun of his many blunders. Most of us learn a lot more from failure than we do from success; failure is the price we pay for success. There is a saying that when money meets experience, experience leaves with the money and money leaves with experience. I guess if you were to ask money how he made out he could possibly say he failed, when in reality all he did was pay to get experience.
I strongly believe that people who are overly afraid of failure are those who do not operate from a position of abundance, but rather from the position of scarcity. When you operate from abundance you know more opportunities will come your way and you don’t dwell on the negative, but when operating from the side of scarcity, you feel that this is all you have and that it is yours so it must be protected.
A perfect example of this is the “Parable of The Talents.” Jesus tells the story of a man in Matthew 25:14-30 who was going away and called his servants to entrust them with his property while he was out of town. To one servant he gave five talents, of money to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he left town. The servant who received the five talents went at once and put the money to work and gained five more. The servant with two also gained two more, and the servant who had received one dug a hole and put it in the ground for safe keeping.
When the man returned to settle accounts with them, the servant who received five talents brought another five talents. Well done servant you have been faithful with the few talents. Come I will raise your commission split. The man with the two talents brought another two talents, well done servant I will give you many more, come let me raise your commission split. Then the servant who had received the one talent came, he said Master I knew you were a hard man, so I did not farm any neighborhood, or call any FSBO’S or work the expireds to get you more listings, and I kept your listing out of the MLS so it would not expire and you loose it. The Master replied, you wicked and lazy servant, give you’re listing to the servant with ten. For everyone who has, will be given more, and he will have abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside.
It is clear that the servant in the parable who did nothing was operating from a position of scarcity. How many of you operate in this manner by not reinvesting in yourself or your business? Operate from abundance and the fear of failure will go away, but as people we will continue to fail as it is a necessity along our journey to achieve success.
Craig Groeschel made a statement that failure in not a person it is an event that takes place in ones life, Craig also goes on to talk about experiencing failure in small doses. Successful people have become masters of failure. I was watching an interview with billionaire Warren Buffet on television when he made a statement that in life you only need to win a few times to have overwhelming success and he himself laughed and made fun of his many blunders. Most of us learn a lot more from failure than we do from success; failure is the price we pay for success. There is a saying that when money meets experience, experience leaves with the money and money leaves with experience. I guess if you were to ask money how he made out he could possibly say he failed, when in reality all he did was pay to get experience.
I strongly believe that people who are overly afraid of failure are those who do not operate from a position of abundance, but rather from the position of scarcity. When you operate from abundance you know more opportunities will come your way and you don’t dwell on the negative, but when operating from the side of scarcity, you feel that this is all you have and that it is yours so it must be protected.
A perfect example of this is the “Parable of The Talents.” Jesus tells the story of a man in Matthew 25:14-30 who was going away and called his servants to entrust them with his property while he was out of town. To one servant he gave five talents, of money to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he left town. The servant who received the five talents went at once and put the money to work and gained five more. The servant with two also gained two more, and the servant who had received one dug a hole and put it in the ground for safe keeping.
When the man returned to settle accounts with them, the servant who received five talents brought another five talents. Well done servant you have been faithful with the few talents. Come I will raise your commission split. The man with the two talents brought another two talents, well done servant I will give you many more, come let me raise your commission split. Then the servant who had received the one talent came, he said Master I knew you were a hard man, so I did not farm any neighborhood, or call any FSBO’S or work the expireds to get you more listings, and I kept your listing out of the MLS so it would not expire and you loose it. The Master replied, you wicked and lazy servant, give you’re listing to the servant with ten. For everyone who has, will be given more, and he will have abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside.
It is clear that the servant in the parable who did nothing was operating from a position of scarcity. How many of you operate in this manner by not reinvesting in yourself or your business? Operate from abundance and the fear of failure will go away, but as people we will continue to fail as it is a necessity along our journey to achieve success.
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