LIVING without LIMITS
How to Bounce Back From FAILURE
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ince moving back to North Carolina, I have been truly blessed and amazed at the incredible entrepreneurs with
whom I've have met and collaborated. These folks have come from a variety of industry backgrounds including the FBI, pulpit, pharma, sales training, personal development, coaching, business develop- ment, and many others. As I was considering the content for
this month’s article, I wanted to get these individuals’ perspectives on how they have become so successful and how they have successfully persisted through failure and setbacks. Their responses, as you will read, are profound and wise. Whereas others might have given up when obstacles seemed too difficult for breakthrough, the individuals you will read about below knew failure was just part of the success equation. They actually associated failure as a requirement for success and by taking risks and learning from such failure, they bounced back each and every time and accomplished more.
Linda Gail Cash, LPC Therapy for individuals, families, couples
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. You only lose when you lose the lesson and quit.
Lin Jordan has an impressive-yet-
classified background from the FBI and now enjoys connecting and supporting business entrepreneurs. He’s a pay-it-for- ward gentleman that I deeply respect. About failure, Lin believes "failure is a state of mind that is chosen rather than assigned. If you must, define failure as a temporary detour leading to success." Lin finds the lyrics to Sarah McLachlan’s song, Just Another Ordinary Miracle Today, to be a great motivational resource:
“When you wake up everyday Please don't throw your dreams away Hold them close to your heart Cause we are all a part of the ordinary miracle”
~ Sarah McLachlan Another mentor and friend having an
incredible perspective on leadership and failure is Rich Gorman, owner of the re- nowned Sandler Training in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1990, Rich remembers read- ing a book by Robert Schuler titled Success Is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final. For him, the book was life-changing and put him on a path of personal growth that still continues today. Through that journey Rich realized that “failure is a prerequisite for sustainable success. Everyone fails. We can choose to look at failure as a negative experience, or we can choose to look at it as a learning experience with lessons to guide us on what needs to be changed in order to achieve our desired result.” Rich continued, “the ability to learn
from our failures is what allows the top performer to move forward and grow. If, on the other hand, we only see our failures as a reflection of our limitations, we will never use them as leverage to move for- ward and improve future performance. At
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