Thomas Edison claimed to have failed over 10,000 times while trying to invent electricity. How was he able to stay so committed to achieving his desired goal after failing so much? Thomas Edison knew what was at stake. He knew that his legacy as one of the greatest inventors of all time depended on him inventing electricity.
Thomas Edison said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.” He believed that every failure he experienced was only getting him closer to finding the solution to his problem. How many people would’ve quit when facing the same adversity as he faced?
It is almost impossible to achieve something extraordinary without experiencing some kind of setback or temporary defeat. One of my idols Napoleon Hill said, “No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
I can’t tell you how many times I have found myself on the brink of failure, only to succeed? It is one of life’s most rewarding feelings to know that you’ve succeeded when you were so close to failing. Have you found yourself in that position before? What kept you from throwing in the towel? I guarantee that you had too much to lose to quit.
Fear of Loss Or Hope For Gain?
When you set out to achieve something extraordinary, you must consider what’s at stake for you. What have you got to lose if you don’t make it? What do you have to gain when you achieve your desired goal? The more reasons why you have to achieve your desired goal, the more motivation and determination you will have to achieve your desired goal. The more reasons why you have behind your cause, the more committed you will stay when things don’t go your way.
Trust me, there will come a time when you are cruising down easy street on your way to achieving your goal and something is going to knock you so hard on your ass that you might not even know what hit you. When you are facing that painful feeling of failure, your judgement is not where it needs to be. That’s when that devilish little voice in your head is going to try to persuade you to quit. Lets face it, quitting is usually the easy thing to do. Everyone is doing it, its okay if you quit, right? Wrong, I’ve quit before and it sucks. There are still skeletons in my closet from throwing in the towel when I should’ve soldiered on. I can’t take that back, and neither can you. Do you have some quitting skeletons in your closet? We can’t change the past but we are in total control of our future. Its entirely up to us to make sure we never make the same mistake again. The best way to do that is to totally understand what’s at stake. Understand what you have to lose. Understand what you have to gain. Understand that you can achieve anything you believe.
Next Time I Will Persevere
The next time you find yourself on the brink of failure, its okay. Failure is a part of the journey. Failure is a chance to begin again more intelligently. Failure is just an outcome, that’s all it is, its just an outcome. Take a deep breath and focus on all the reasons why you have to keep on keeping on. Focus on everything you have to gain. Focus on everything you have to lose. The more reasons you have, the more empowered you will be. Anyone can quit when the going gets tough. It takes a real winner to persevere in the face of adversity. If I can do it, then so can you. Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Life is an amazing experience that changes everyday. Sometimes life’s changes happen so fast that if you are not changing with it, you are going to be left behind. You definitely don’t want to be left behind because its hard to catch up. If you want a great example of life’s changes leaving people behind, all you have to do is just look at the countless people who still can’t operate the internet. Believe it or not, these people are out there. Are you changing with life? Or is life’s changes leaving you behind?
Change = Better
Humans have been thirsty for change since the days of the cave man. These changes have made our lives better and better with every change. Lets face it, no one has ever set out to make a change because they desired to make things worse. Our passion for change over the years has been inspired by our desire to make things better. How thirsty are you to make a change for the better?
Become a change artist. A change artist is someone who is committed to constant and never ending improvement. I don’t care who you are, or what you have accomplished. I guarantee you that there are many areas of your life that could benefit from improvement. Make your weaknesses your strengths. Make your strengths stronger than ever. Learn new skills that will make your life better. Strive for this improvement because if you don’t, there will always be someone who comes along who is smarter, stronger, better, faster than you are. If you don’t make it a point to change for the better, those change artist will pass you by. In today’s ultra competitive world, if you are not a change artist, you will be in danger of losing out to one.
What changes could you make that would make the quality of your life better?
What skills could you improve on?
What can you do to improve your communication skills with your loved ones and the rest of the world?
What can you do to improve your health?
What could you do to improve your knowledge?
What changes are you in desperate need of making?
Only you know the answers to those questions. Only you know what changes you need to make. Stop being in denial and start making the necessary changes that will drastically improve the quality of your life. Don’t let life change without you. Become a change artist and commit yourself to constant and never ending improvement. Even small changes lead to big improvements. Don’t let life get better without you. Life gets better by the day, make sure you get better with it.
Since I started my Fight Against Fat on 9/23/2009, I have almost lost 30 pounds. I weighed 205.8 pounds and I am now down to 177 pounds. My goal was to get down to 165 pounds but I didn’t quite make it. I will be there very soon. Its not a matter of if I will make, its only a matter of when I will make it. My mind, body, and soul are in total harmony and I feel better than ever. Join me and lets kick FAT’s ASS. If I can do it, so can you. Take control of your health so you can live longer and stronger.
Some of the greatest achievers of all time have developed massive success from their past failures. Nothing can be more inspiring then the discouraging feeling and utter disappointment that accompany failing. Failing is a major part of life. It always has been, and it always will be. Learning how to use failure as a motivator will determine your future success when dealing with the trials and tribulations that failing often bring.
Thomas Edison’s 10,000 plus failed attempts at inventing electricity gave him the wisdom he needed in order to succeed. If it wasn’t for those failed experiments, he wouldn’t have known what type of filament to use in order to invent electricity. Life will teach you invaluable lessons if you let it. In order to succeed, you must fail so you will know what to do the next time around.
The key is to not let your failure’s get too personal. When you are chilling at your self-hosted loser party, singing the following lyrics, “OH MY GOODNESS, I JUST FAILED BIG TIME. OH NO, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO THIS TIME? MY LIFE IS OVER. I WILL NEVER MAKE IT.” It is precisely in this moment of stripped dignity that you must get a hold of yourself, and summon that SUPER HERO from within you. It is during this time of darkness that champions and achievers are born. It is during this time when you stop feeling sorry for yourself and remember that FAILURE IS JUST AN OUTCOME.
Always remember…… Failure is never permanent. Failure is just an outcome. If you don’t get the outcome that you desire, you just keep changing your approach until you succeed. My past failures have never stopped me from succeeding and they shouldn’t stop you. If that was the case, we would all be wearing diapers still because none of us would’ve ever made it past the potty training stage. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Use your failures as stepping stones and not stumbling blocks and you will be amazed at how high you climb.
With the new year approaching soon, many people will have new hopes, goals, dreams, and desires. The problem is that most people will not take any action towards the manifestation of these ambitions. Why is that these people will think of these new goals, but they will not do anything to make them happen? I would place the blame on their limiting beliefs. They just don’t believe that they can achieve the results that they desire. Most people who are underachievers have a long list of limiting beliefs. Any major personal achievement begins with a change in beliefs. Your beliefs are everything, they have the power to make you or break you.
The important thing to do is to identify any limiting belief that you may have. The best way to do this is to question this belief. Follow these steps to replace your limiting beliefs with empowering beliefs.
1. What is wrong with this belief? List as many reasons as you can.
2. What has this limiting belief prevented me from achieving in the past? What has this belief cost me up to now? How has this belief limited my past success and happiness? List as many reasons as you can. Make it as painful as possible.
3. If I don’t make a change now, what will this belief cost me in the future? List as many reasons as you can. Don’t forget to make it as painful as possible.
4. Visualize the painful consequences that these limiting beliefs will bring you. Make it a very painful visualization. I mean make it nasty. REAL NASTY
5. Decide that enough is enough. You will no longer suffer the consequences of your old limiting beliefs. Our brains are always trying to avoid pain, the more pain we associate to our limiting beliefs, the more empowered we will be to change them.
6. Write down a new empowering belief for every limiting belief you are getting rid of.
7. Reinforce the strength of these new empowering beliefs by visualizing the countless benefits these new beliefs will bring you. Think it, believe it, and then you will see it in your life. The more benefits you associate to these beliefs, the more empowered you will be. Focus on how these new empowering beliefs will change your life. How they will benefit your family and friends.
With an empowering belief system, there is no limit to the outcomes that you can accomplish. The more empowering your beliefs, the more empowered you will be. Take your passion and make it happen.
Dreamers And Doers of The World Dream Day And Night
The purpose of life is to live each and everyday to its fullest. Life is short, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be extremely sweet. So many people go through life just existing because they are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true. Becoming an achiever doesn’t happen by accident. The Dreamers and Doers of this world were not born dreamers and doers, they became dreamers and doers because they had control over their thoughts and actions. These people focused and obsessed about achieving their dreams constantly. They busted their asses daily, doing everything in their power until they were successful. They didn’t know what failure was. Making their dreams come true was never an option for them, it was a MUST.
The reason that your average person is not successful is because they tend to only dream when they are asleep. When you are asleep, you are not in control of your dreams. It is those visionaries who dream while they are awake who become the dreamers and doers of this world. These people knew exactly WHAT their dream was. They knew the reasons WHY they wanted it and they knew exactly HOW to make their dreams their reality. Just dreaming about being successful and achieving greatness will never be enough if you are not going to make the necessary sacrifices. You have to be willing to pay the price in the form of blood, sweat, and tears in order to make your dreams come true. Daydreaming is the easy part, delivering is the difficult part. As you know, great things never come on a silver platter so get ready to work it.
How to Make Your Dreams Come True
1. Know exactly WHAT your hopes, goals, dreams, and desires are. How are you going to make something happen if you don’t even have a clue about what you want in your life? Start yourself a dream book. Write down specifically what it is that you want to achieve. Be as detailed about your desired goals as possible. Don’t just say “I want to be successful” or “I want a new house” or “I want to lose weight”. Be specific about what you want in detail. If you want a dream relationship, write down specifically what your idea of a dream relationship is. What kind of qualities do you want in a lover? What are some of the things you would do together as a couple? You can’t design your dream life if you don’t know exactly WHAT you want in your dream life.
2. Know exactly WHY you want to make these dreams come true and write it down in your dream journal. Write down the feeling you are going to feel when you make your dreams your reality. Write down the changes that you are going to experience in your life as a result of making your dreams come true. Write down the way you will be living when you have made your dreams come true. Write down how the people in your life are going to feel when you make your dreams come true. Those people who have a strong enough reason WHY are capable of achieving amazing outcomes. Empower yourself with as many compelling reasons WHY as you can. The more reasons why you have, the more burning desire you will have to make it happen. Lets take that desire and set it on fire.
3. Know exactly HOW you are going to make your dreams come true and write it down in your dream journal. Write down the necessary actions that you will have to take to make your dreams come true. Write down any new skills that you will need to learn in order to make your dreams come true. Write down the sacrifices that you are going to have to take to make your dreams come true. Write down any changes that you will need to make to your life or to your beliefs in order to make your dreams come true. Success leaves clues, chances are someone has already achieved your dream so learn as much as you can through research. What did they do to make their dreams come true? Is there anything you can do differently from them? What can you do to improve on their approach? Set yourself a timeline. Write down how long it is going to take to make it happen. Napoleon Hill said, “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Knowing exactly HOW you are going to make your dreams come true is critical to your success.
Write all these things down in your dream journal. Read it to yourself daily as soon as you wake up and nightly right before you go to bed. Read it to yourself until its memorized and internalized. You need to focus your thoughts on achieving your desired goals. Making your dreams come true must become your obsession. It needs to be a part of you. If it is just a hobby, you will fail. If you have any doubts, you will fail. You don’t have time to waste, so make your time count when its work time. Announce your dream to people you know that are going to hold you accountable. You will encounter haters and dream stealers along the way who will try to discourage you. Some of them may even be your family and friends. They will tell you that you can’t do it or they will tell you its too hard to do it. Turn your haters into your motivators. I don’t care what they think and neither should you. It doesn’t matter what other people believe you can achieve. It only matters what you believe you can achieve. Never forget that you can achieve anything you desire if you believe in your abilities. You and only you can control your future. You are the only person who can make your dreams come true. Don’t let your life pass you by. Don’t take the tranquilizing drug of procrastination. Take your passion and make your dreams happen NOW.
You have to see these people in action. They look like they are truly on top of the world. This has to be one of life’s most sensational feelings. I bet these individuals are just enjoying every moment of their lives. I bet they feel richer feeling than any of the worlds wealthiest people. Success is not always measured by what you have in your life. Success is measured by the way you lived your life. Your life can be truly extraordinary or your life can be miserably ordinary. Its entirely up to you. Check out this video to see an amazing experience and we will catch up afterwards.
Two Ways to Live Your Life
There really is only two ways to live your life. You can choose to sit on your coffin until you die. Or you can be sitting on top of the world. Most people believe that they can never make it to the top of the world so they end up sitting on their coffins until they sleep in them forever. It isn’t because anyone made them sit on their coffins. Its because they chose to sit on their coffins so they could lead a meaningless life. These people failed to protect themselves from the dark side of negative thinking and limiting beliefs. These people failed to have the willpower to persevere when life kicked them in the gut. Their examination of their lives convinced them that it was everyone else’s fault but theirs. These people have no hopes, no goals, no dreams, or no desires. They are pretty much just existing until they become extinct. These people could have all the money in the world yet they would be extremely poor.
My Energy Growth
Lately I’ve had countless people commenting about my unlimited energy. What these people don’t realize is that my energy is now growing by the day. Its crazy in a fabulous way. Imagine being a super motivated person, then imagine that motivation growing by the day, making you more motivated than you had ever been. That is the luxury I am enjoying in my life today. I am sitting on top of the world. You should really join me if you are not already here.
Sitting on Top of The World
My energy grows by the day because of the way that I live my life now. My mind, body, and soul are in sync like Beethoven at his best. My mind power is developing by the day as I am getting into the best shape of my life physically. This combination is giving my soul an unlimited amount of passion for life. I have never been this energized and alive in my life. I feel awesome. Ladies and gentleman, I have recently realized that there is only two ways to live your life. You can choose to sit on a coffin as you wait to die. Or you can step up and take control of your life so you can be sitting on top of the world.
Your Choice?
If I can feel this way, then so can you. You need to make a commitment to yourself that you are going to make each day better than the one before. You need to commit constant progress to your mind and your body. You need to unleash your inner Energizer Bunny and set your burning desire on fire. I am alive, I am dripping with a passion for life, and I am going to make the very best of my one chance here on this planet. My religion is my motivation and there is nothing you can say or do to stop my force. Criticism is just a disguised compliment so I am even drawing inspiration from my dreamstealers and my haters. No drug in the world can give you the feeling of sitting on top of the world. Its entirely up to you to claim your place on top of this world. I can’t do it for you. Your better half can’t do it for you. Your cousin Bunny sure can’t do it for you. Its entirely up to you to get yourself to the top. When you see this view, you will have truly hit one of life’s pinnacles.
By the way. I have decided to fly in one of those suits. It is going to take some time to build up the experience required to be able to fly like that but I am determined to do it. Stay tuned for Hooman in a flying suit.
Hiding Your Problems is The Best Thing You Can do if You Want to….
Hiding your problems is the best thing you can do if you want them to grow into bigger problems. When I was a little kid there were times where my room was an absolute mess with toys everywhere. My mother would tell me to clean up my room before I could go outside and play. I would be so desperate to play outside that I would open the door to my closet and shove all my toys in there. When I stacked up my collection of toys, I would slam the door shut and hope that an avalanche of toys didn’t come tumbling down. Bada bing, bada boom, no more toys in my room, problem solved right?
What I was really doing was sweeping my problems under a rug. You know what happens when you consistently sweep a bunch of small problems under the rug? Problems that are swept under a rug tend to multiply into much bigger problems. They tend to float around in the back of our minds while they slowly grow in size while we are in denial. So many people let their small problems manifest themselves into major problems because they think if they avoid them they will disappear. Then they find themselves forced into major crisis control when they could’ve avoided the entire situation. Don’t let your problems gain interest on you. Take care of any problem right then and there so you don’t have to worry about that problem rearing its ugly head again. Did I mention I always got hit with the avalanche of toys?
How to Solve Any Problem The Right Way Using The 5/95 Rule
1. Start off by getting excited about your opportunity to provide a solution to your problem. Believe that you can find the solution. Stay cool, calm, and collected. It is all about your attitude towards the situation. Having the best attitude will always put you in the best state of mind which is very important when it comes to being a master of solutions. Believing that you can do it will be critical to your success.
2. Forget about what you could have done. Its all about what you are going to do. No one can change the past, but we all can change our futures. It is very important that you get the highest and best use from your time when it comes to finding solutions.
3. Analyzing the situation should only take up about 5% of your time. This is what I like to call situation analysis. Find out exactly what the problem is. This step is crucial to your success because if you don’t know exactly what the problem is there is no way to fix it.
4. Spend 95% of your time seeking the solution. This is your time to shine so step up and find the solution. Don’t be afraid to take a risk. Keep trying different approaches until you succeed. Many people have achieved the unthinkable during the most difficult of times. There is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do the same.
5. Learn from the situation and move on. Don’t keep making the same mistakes because that is what Albert Einstein calls insanity. It is imperative that you use every experience in life to make you a better person. Remember, “Win or Learn, there is no failure,” Henry Ford.
Creating Momentum to Achieve Your Goals and Keeping it.
Creating goal momentum towards achieving your desired goals is always easy because we all start out excited and enthusiastic. Keeping your goal momentum until you achieve your desired goal is easier said than done because the excitement and enthusiasm often wheres off when there is a setback or failure experienced along the way. This is where most people will accept their failure as permanent and they will throw in the towel, quitting when they should have kept going.
My target date was before the new year, so I was well on my way to achieving my desired goal. The mistake I made next was a common mistake that most people make when they are trying to achieve a goal. Most people will experience a little success and that is when they start getting comfortable. They go back to their old bad habits that got them in need of making a change in the first place. What was I guilty of? I violated my diet on two separate occasions by eating some microwaveable Jimmy Dean sandwiches that I knew I shouldn’t have eaten. Every sandwich has 430 calories each. The first violation was 860 calories because I had two. My second violation was 1290 calories because I ate 3 of them. I knew I was pigging out and being bad, I just didn’t think that it was going to cost me 5 pounds. I went from 186 pounds to 191 pounds just like that. I felt horrible. I felt like I violated myself. I knew what I had to do. This was make or break time for me. Was I going to fall under the category of the 90% of people who lose weight and get it right back? Or was I going to go back to doing the right thing? The average person quits when trying to achieve their goals when they experience a setback or a temporary failure. You and I are not the average person. Average people quit at the first sign of failure because they think its too hard or they think that they can’t make it. Napoleon Hill said, “Failure cannot cope with persistence.”
The Key to Keeping Your Goal Momentum is
Remember, failure is only permanent when you have accepted it as your reality. You must refuse to quit until you achieve the results that you desire. Perseverance will move you through those trying times that make the average person quit. You and I are not average. We must refuse to quit until we succeed. A relentless effort is the key to achieving your desired goals. Never stop doing what you did to experience success. Yet, so many people will get lazy or comfortable and they will slack here and there. It doesn’t take much slacking to give you a major setback. In my case, it was just two meals. Those two meals cost me 25% of my progress. You should only change your approach if you don’t get the results that you desire, not when you experience success. It took me a few days to lose the five pounds that I had so quickly gained back. I went back to doing the right thing and I was reminded of what it takes to achieve your desired goals.
1. You must refuse to quit until you achieve the results that you desire. Be prepared to handle setbacks along the way. Use perseverance to get you through those difficult times that will make the average person quit.
2. A relentless effort is the key to achieving the results that you desire. You must take massive action until you make it happen.
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Motivational quotes have been a huge inspiration to me over the years. When I would a hear motivational quote that I liked, I would immediately write it down and then I would memorize it. Once I memorized an awesome quote, it was mine forever. Whenever I had an opportunity to share an empowering quote with someone I would. Wisdom is a wonderful thing to discover, but there comes a duty with discovering wisdom. You must share your wisdom with others so they can continue to pass the wisdom on. Here is part 1-19 of my motivational quotes series. If you love motivational quotes, take some time to look at parts 1 – 19 so you can find the quotes that will bring out the best of you. Don’t forget to memorize them and share them with the world. Motivational quotes just inspire me so much that I can’t get enough of them. Tell me your favorite quote in the comments section.
