Fail to Success

The word Fail is scary… or at least that is what school teaches us. You fail that test, you get a detention. There is always a punishment following a failure. This makes us want to avoid making mistakes. This makes us want to avoid failing and therefore avoid success.

A study of 130 toddlers showed that new walkers fell on average 69 times an hour. They failed 69 times in an hour and still didn't give up. You see we are born to fail. We were born with the idea that in order to succeed we have to fail. As we grow up this idea is lost. Schools, parents, and our society associate failure with negativity.

I think the power of failing to succeed is described by Robert T. Kiyosaki wonderfully. “Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing.”

Successful people did not just succeed on their first go. They tried and failed and tried and failed harder and then tried even harder. That is why they are successful. Successful people are not afraid to fail. They know that is the only way to accomplish something worthwhile. These people know that people who avoid failure also avoid success.

Instead of turning failure into a negative thing, what we should do is celebrate failure. We should give ourselves a pat on the back for giving something a go. And then we should get ready to fail again.

So, remember that failure is one step closer to success. Only successful people fail and then use these failures to get back up again and try harder.

Queen Mah Noor