HOW MANY TIMES WE FAIL

          Failure is one thing that is often frightening for anyone doing business. Usually people prefer to talk about or learn about how to be successful or not how to cope with failure, even though it is two things that are equally important. In fact, once again, in reality people are more afraid of failure than success.

          According to Napoleon Hill, “any failures carry the seeds of a great fortune”. That is, if we want to have the seeds of great fortune, then we need a failure. In reality and simple language, nonsense when someone says that people who are succesful and have a great fortune have never failed.

          Actually, failure is a part of our life, together with success in all respects. The simplest example, if we see a new baby learning to walk would often fail because of balance that is still not good. But, still the baby was tried and tried again and failed and failed again until one day he can run smoothly. So it does when learning to run often fail to run fast.

Why babies do not fear failure repeatedly over it? The first because there is a strong internal factor, namely : 

a. Tremendous boost to be able to walk and run. The boost gives the continuous spirit and beat “pain” when falling or failed in walking and running.

b.  Great confidence that he will be able to did it. Out of nowhere the source, but this confidence is  very visible from the expression on the face that always cheerful to try and try again without any sense of desperation.

c.  There is measurably joy if it has been managed to do so. Usually every baby has managed to walk a few steps, although they had fallen many times, they will laugh with joy after successfully holding the front wall.

The second is the external factor that support, namely :

 a. Parents or their guardians who help to hold their hands often release them. It makes the baby feel safe and close to the people who look after them, so they will not hesitate to continuously try and try again.

b. There are rewarded with a kiss or a hug if they have been in front of the wall to walk on their own.

We can learn from the baby. Is there a strong boost within us to successfully operate our business? Is there a huge confidence that we can do good business? And is there a genuine joy when our business succeed. We should be able to answer with a assertively “yes”. If the answer  is “no” then we do not expect to have the fortitude in facing any failure while building a business. External factors are also important. So we have to find our strong Helper and Supporter. The second external factor, we should not hesitate to reward ourselves when we have reached a success, however small the success. For example, celebrating with family or co-workers with a meal at a restaurant. If could also contribute to variety of social activites such as church, mosque or orphanage. The point is that we have to really feel joy, because it has been a success, so there is encouragement as well as a greater spirit to move further ahead. 

          Failure does not have to fear much less a scourge that work against us in trying or doing business. There is a fellow entrepreneur  who has been succsessful said, “We need at least four times failed miserably to achieve great succsess in business, it has not been anything. With these words we can interpret that, failure is the commonplace and does not to be feared, especially to prevent us to try and step in business. We must do all our efforts in the best way that we can do.

 If after that we fail again, it means :

1. We need introspection to find out where the fault.

2. We must learn to be better in order to be successful.

3. We may not be allowed to the next grade, due to the class in which we live cannot yet pass.

With actual failure we are building a base or foundation of success.  Almost hard to find people who are so successful and powerful in the business not having a failure experience. Did it fail because consumers rejected, failed to create a superior product, or fail to manage financial and other assets? Failure should not be embrassing and not necessarily deaden. Which is a shame if we do the same failures and we repeat it again. We must learn from the failures so as not to repeat again. Only ass is going down two times in the same pit.

          No need to count how many times we have failed. The important thing is to get up again after a failure. Due to failures when we learn well in the end will be a ladder to climb to achieve success and greater fortune.