Success from Failure

Sometimes failure is success turned upside down! It’s strange how this works. Failure gives motivation to try harder, study harder, think harder, and to move in a direction that many times leads to success. Looking at something from a different perspective can make all the difference!
Many famous people failed before success was eventually obtained! You are no different; that is, you may have failure before success floods your world!
Thomas Edison failed many times and yet he is “considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. “ (Wikipedia). He was considered a poor student and eventually his mother home schooled him. He attributes his success to his mother. When we have at least one person that is our champion we have the basis for a good foundation and the motive to achieve great things!
Albert Einstein had early speech difficulties, yet, he is one of the greatest minds of all time. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, and he is regarded as the father of modern physics!
Einstein once said, “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” And this is so true! How many people make mistakes the first time something new is tried? There’s no need to beat yourself up, as you often do! At least you tried. You are in a positive force when you try and eventually that positive force with intersect with success if you keep trying, Don’t give up the first time you fail a test, go bankrupt, lose your job, get divorced, and so many other things that social mores frame as failure.
Some people are fast starters and burn out fast; others are slow learners and like the tortoise win the race!
Neither of the Wright brothers finished high school. And Wilbur became withdrawn after loosing his front teeth in an accident. He stayed home secluded and cared for his mother who was terminally ill. Perhaps at this point in his life he was exactly where he was suppose to be-caring for his mother!
Although Orville dropped out of high school he successfully ran a print shop and Wilbur overcame depression when he started working with his brother in the print shop. Later, their perseverance gave them their place in history.
Time and time again, history shows how much we need the support of others to overcome our frailties and failures.
Learn from failure! Analyze it and understand what went wrong. The worst kind of failure is when you give up on yourself, and no failure is worth that much! There is always tomorrow. It never fails that the sun will shine another day. Hope is always near. When you give up on yourself seek a close friend who will give you perspective.
Always look ahead and expect good things to happen to you!
Listen to your inner voice, the more you listen to it the stronger your intuition becomes. When you learn to listen to your higher self, you will always have the best advice from a true friend! Your higher self comes from a platform of good intentions; it will never fail you.
Asking others for advice is okay, but when you ignore your inner voice and constantly seek the advice of others, your inner voice retreats. You will become confused with conflicting advice. When someone gives you advice, listen to it with an open mind. Go home and meditate upon it; ask God’s counsel and your inner voice will guide you.
If you don’t “hear” your inner voice, ask God to help you find it, and you will have one!
Native Americans ask God one time-that’s all it takes! “The Secret” says the same thing. You wouldn’t keep ordering the same item from a catalog, would you? God hears you the first time!
It is your inner voice that gives you creativity and opens many doors of opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey says there is no such thing as luck; only opportunities waiting when you are ready. And this is true!
Failure allows you time of introspection to assess the things you’ve done wrong; when you least expect it, the answers to your problem, or should I say…the answers to your success will come flooding in!


Hermelinda Ramsay
October 7, 2009

Motivation

Motivation is a feeling that gives you purpose towards a desired goal; the reason for the action or behavior. How do you get that feeling in your gut that helps you have ambition or simply feel good about getting up in the morning? Where does motivation come from? Some people seem to be overflowing with it; others seem alien to it.
People are classified as either a night or morning person. A night person’s creative force always waxes as the sun goes down-never when the sun shines its brilliant face upon Mother Earth. I was always a night person, although recently I’ve been getting up with an increasing amount of joy and happiness. I wake up with a spiritual force that surrounds me all day long. What made the difference? Here a few things I did to help motivate me:
First, I rarely succumb to watching the news! I don’t find the need to waste my time watching the headlines news. I have too many creative projects to work on to waste my time watching murders, burglaries, and who knows what else. I keep track of national and international business news through reading several business journals on the web.
Second, I read a lot of books in preparation for writing our company’s newsletter and my blog. I sort through dozens of books per week. The library is my magic carpet! I love the neat aisles filled with wondrous books!
Another way to use the library, thanks to the internet, is to search a topic through the local library’s website. If I want to read something, I place it on hold, the library sends me a notice that the book is waiting to be picked up, and I go pick up my treasure; how convenient is that! Anything I ever wanted to know I read in a book!
One of my recent favorites is, “The Secret”. “The Secret” speaks of being your own creator; it also defines ways of attracting all that you ever desired. I wanted to attract positive things and to have the house, the car, the relationship I always dreamed of! In order to attract the things one wants, one must be positively grateful for the things one has now! This is another way of being motivated: Be positive to stay motivated. Positivity is marked by excessive self-confidence. The dictionary says positive is impossible to deny or disprove! Therefore, being positive creates motivation.
Thirdly, I’ve started stating ten things I am grateful for before going to sleep at night, and I do the same thing before I get out of bed in the morning. Some people have asked, “How can you find that many things to be thankful for?” It’s very easy! Look around; you are surrounded by beautiful, inspiring things, and every day you meet people who are inspiring and motivational!
Motivation is a state of mind. Whatever you put in your mind will definitely create your mindset. Beware of what you read, watch on TV, and the friends you hang out with at school or work. You don’t have to be an island unto yourself, or draw a circle and shut others out! Take the time to talk to people you have very little in common with; don’t shut them out; talk with them anyway. You may be the only inspiration they have that day. You don’t know what others are going through! Someone may be going through a divorce, maybe they were recently laid off, or they lost everything in a fire, or lost their dream home in a foreclosure.
When you motivate others, you stay motivated. It’s an attraction that will never change. Stay positive; stay motivated-always be ready to help others on a day that may be their worse day. Years later, they will remember the person who placed their arms around them when they were crying, or the person who said just the right thing at just the right time.
Motivation is a choice! If you choose to be motivated you will be. Make it a desire to stay focused on the good things in life-family, friends, and God. You can’t go wrong there! Who among us can not feel the most blessed inspiration deep in your soul when you hear the giggle of a baby, or when you hold your first child, and then your first grandchild! Oh, that’s blessed goodness. The light of day, the drops of rain, the moonlit night-they all inspire one to be motivated when the economy is grim.
Through the darkest days of the depression, people found motivation to live another day, love another soul, walk another step towards hope.
May you find the things that motivate you; dwell upon the positive in your life, and help others who are feeling the weight of the earth in these troubled times.