If you were to walk into a full room of a thousand people and ask, “how many of you want to be failures in life?” you would probably get no response. Infact the only response you might get would be people cursing you under their breath. On the contrary, if you asked the question, “how many of you want to be successful in life?” every hand would go up and even if there were a deaf man in the crowd he probably would raise his hands too. Now, if 100% of a sample audience all want to be successful why then are 95% of the world’s population not successful? The truth is that even though many people deny the desire for failure with their mouth their actions connote otherwise.

It is important to note that failure is a sneaky fellow. Failure does not shout warnings at us like our parents did, neither does he give us tickets like the cop would , nor does he suddenly bring down a house like a bomb would. But little by little based upon our actions failure overtakes us till we are runover. Like Jim Rohn said, “Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices.” We do no fail overnight but we fail over time. A minor oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted hour has no immediate, obvious and measurable degenerating effect so we do not immediately get punished for our actions. Those who fail, do so because they live all of their lives in the present and not even considering the future. If we have not attempted reading a single book in 60 days we may not see the immediate impact on our lives. As a result we may go on without a book for another 60 days and on and on till the year runs out. The danger does not only lie in the actions not taken, the danger, more importantly, lies in not realisng that these actions matter. We cannot expect to carry out actions that promote failure and because we don’t see ourselves failing immediately we continue the same way. According to Benjamin Franklin, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. We cannot continue to ignore or neglect doing what is right and expect the results to change.

So how can we change these habits of failure to habits of success. Simple, all we have to do is integrate the future into our current philosophy. 

Like failure, success is also based your daily actions, but here is the difference. While acts of failure slowly weaken you thereby making it easy for it to overtake you without you noticing it, success lets you know you are on its path after only a short while. You feel energized from that book you just read and your confidence level immediately starts to soar-a healthy diet and some exercise and you feel regenerated almost immediately.

So why not cross over from wishing for sucess and acting otherwise, to actually carrying out actions geared towards becoming successful. Like I said in my last post, I choose not to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon if I can…remember the choice is your’s.
Failure is living for the present, Success is living for the future

Tags: Sucess, Failure, Jim Rohn, Benjamin Franklin

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