It's Going To Be Ok. Keep On Going!
The major difference between average people and achieving people is their perspective of and response to failure. In other words, how I see failure going in, how I respond to failure coming out.
Lesson no 1
I have also discovered about failure and problems that our perspective changes tremendously if it is someone else's problem with failure, versus my problem for failure. It's the old joke, major surgery, minor surgery. You know minor surgery is when it's on you and major surgery is when it's on me.
My dad loves to tell this joke about two men who were talking.
One guy says, "I lost my job."
The guy says, "My house burned down."
The other guy says, "It could be worse."
"My wife just left me," he responds.
The other guy says, "It could be worse."
What do you mean it could be worse? You just keep saying it could be worse, it could be worse!
The other guy says, "Well, it could have been my job, my house, and my wife."
Isn't it amazing how we can encourage people during their difficulties, failures, and problems and tell them it's going to be okay, but then when it's us, when we're right in the middle of it, all of a sudden we're saying, "Wow, this is tough, this isn't easy. Man, where did all those easy answers go?"
Lesson no 2
Many famous people have been written off as failures. Albert Einstein's parents thought he was mentally handicapped. His teacher became so frustrated with him, she asked him to leave school, and she wrote, "Einstein will never amount to anything." Fred Astaire kept over his fireplace a memo that had been written by an MGM testing director that said, "Can't act, slightly bald, can dance a little."
Abraham Lincoln's fiancé died, he failed in business twice, and was defeated in eight elections before he became president. Richard Bach, who wrote "Jonathon Livingston Seagull," was turned down by 18 publishers before one finally took a chance on him, and during the next ten years, 7 million copies were sold. Wayne Gretsky, perhaps the greatest National Hockey League player ever, when he entered into the hockey league, the report on him was, "He's too small, too slow and probably won't make it in the NHL."
Henry Ford went broke five times, and when he finally put together his first car, he forgot to put a reverse gear in it!
Lesson no 3
A little kid in elementary school was in bed and he was reading a new book about one of his favorite heroes. He loved the hero in this series of books. He's about halfway through the book when he becomes greatly concerned because terrible things are happening to the hero. He's tied up and they've kidnapped him. So, the kid's somewhat worried. Is the hero going to make it? Finally, he can't stand it anymore.
You've done this before, haven't you? I've done this before. You know what he did, don't you? He goes to the back of the book and reads the last couple of pages. He could tell the hero was going to be fine and the hero wasn't going to be captured. So now he goes back and reads the rest of it.
As he's reading, the hero is still in trouble. But, he's smiling as he reads and he's saying to his hero, "It's going to be okay. You don't know what I know, but it's going to be okay."
You don't know what God knows in the midst of your problems and failures, but let me tell you something, it's going to be okay! (from John Maxwell)
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