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Success or
Failure?
Wanda Wade
What kind of person are you?
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? When faced with setbacks and challenges in
your life how do you handle them? Your
answer and the way you handle life’s situations will lead you down a path of
success or failure.
Let’s first take a look at what happens when failure presents
itself and how it may be handled. I don’t
believe that any of us deliberately sets out to fail, it’s usually a gradual
thing. One problem may arise, then
another and another, and before you know it you’ve hit a brick wall that seems
almost impossible to break through. Life
does present challenges and obstacles but it’s up to you to decide your
approach in dealing with them. The first
step in avoiding failure is to determine what it is, so that by recognizing it
you will be equipped in how to approach it.
The dictionary defines failure as the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended
objective, falling short; a lack of success. Anyone of us seeing that definition can be
tricked into believing that we have failed in one way or another, it just
depends on how it’s viewed. For
instance, there may be something in your life that you may have tried before
that didn’t quite turn out the way you had planned. When this has happened did you look at that moment as a failed attempt or just a minor setback?
In this situation ask yourself, was that first attempt a challenge to
make improvements and try again, or do I just accept defeat and give up?
In my life I continually strive to focus on the positive in all
situations. Of course, this is much
easier said than done and it’s not something that happens overnight. It has to become a part of you, a new way of
life. Your entire thought process has to
change. I relate it to a quote by Norman
Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, “change your thoughts
and change your world.” I prefer to see
the glass as half full because for me it means that there’s still the
opportunity to achieve those objectives I’ve set for myself. Failure for me is not an option and to ensure
that I stay away from it I avoid those things that breed failure, like self-doubt,
negativity and procrastination. All
three of these or even one will keep you from reaching your full potential and
seeing all the possibilities that are before you.
Create a vision of success and it will come to you. I was able to achieve this by creating a list
of those things that I wanted to succeed in, listing the most important one
first. It was a short list that included three things. I titled my list,
life’s possibilities because it was an everyday reminder that as long as I believed in the possibility of
success, I would work toward creating that success for my life. Your list may be longer or shorter, it’s up
to you. Though you want to be careful
not to overwhelm yourself with a laundry list of things because this will
defeat the purpose of what you’re trying to accomplish, which is a life filled
with success. Look at the first life possibility on your list as the
first step in creating the life that you’ve always wanted. Work at it consistently and before long,
those possibilities will become reality.
What possibility in your life would you like to see become a
reality? How dedicated are you in seeing
it to fruition? - wanda wade
