Home Business Failure is the Key to your Success
Have you ever wondered if what you know about home business is
accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you
know to the latest info on home business.
"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us
something." (Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido)
Thomas Alva Edison failed in his experiment for thousands of
times before he was able to invent the electric light bulb.
Laurence Peter failed when more than 20 publishers rejected his
book, "The Peter Principle," before it became a best-seller.
Abraham Lincoln failed the bar exam, failed in several business
ventures, and failed in six major elections before he was
finally elected president.
The truth is, all the aforementioned great people failed... but
they were not failures. Their actions may have failed but not
their very selves, definitely not their spirits. In fact, they
used those "failed moments" as a challenge, as a key to their
success.
The same can be said about any endeavor that we get into, your
home business for instance. Are you failing in your home
business? Have you ever failed? What did you do? Did you wallow
in self-pity and blame everyone for your fall? Or did you choose
to be positive about it?
POSITIVE ASPECTS OF FAILURE
Many people fail to realize that "failure" in itself is not
really a bad thing. In fact, most of those people who have found
success --- whether in their business or personal lives --- went
through a series of failures. However, they did not see those
experiences as a bane but as a boon. They learned from their
mistakes, from their failures, and they used these lessons to
try and try again until they attained success. Here are some
positive aspects of failure:
*Failure can actually mean that you are broadening your goals
and undertaking fresh challenges.
In business, as in life, you encounter various changes and
challenges. Do you welcome such changes and challenges and see
how you can improve your life through these? Or do you merely
sulk and reject these because you are already comfortable with
the status quo and you do not want to take any risk?
That's exactly the point. People who take the challenge face the
risk of failure, but they also accept the opportunity to
succeed. Indeed, not failing may mean that you refuse to aim
high and broaden your goals. You content yourself with setting
"low goals" because you are afraid of failure. In the end, the
irony of it all is that you may be failing even more because you
have already lost the chance of success when you chose to do
nothing about it.
*Failure can be a good test of persistence and perseverance.
How far are you willing to go? How much are you willing to take?
Truly, it is much, much easier to quit when you fail. However, a
person who has the makings of a true successful person will
persevere. He will use whatever lessons he has learned from past
mistakes and actually turn his failure into success.
Is your business failing? Don't quit. If you do, you actually
admit defeat and you are already accepting that you are a
failure.
Do not look at failure as something to shun or be afraid of.
Instead, look at it as an opportunity --- to learn, to grow, to
aspire for more. Consider failure as a significant part of your
life, because life demands that we act, participate, move. And
in so doing, we take the risk of failing. But this only proves
that we are actually doing our share.
Now that we've covered those aspects of home business, let's
turn to some of the other factors that need to be considered.
FAILING SUCCESSFULLY
Now that you are aware of the positive aspects of failing, you
are ready to apply these in your business or your personal life.
Here are some ways to transform that failure into success:
1) Fail honestly. Sincerely acknowledge that you failed --- in
that particular endeavor, for that time. However, make sure that
you are not accepting defeat and you are not looking at yourself
as a failure.
2) Fail intelligently. Take advantage of a failed endeavor.
Evaluate the experience. Analyze what went wrong. Learn from
such experience.
3) Fail courageously. Do not use such failure as an alibi for
quitting. Instead, extract more courage from such failed
endeavor and be ready to try again, to make things better the
next time.
THE KEY TO UNLOCK YOUR SUCCESS
There are numerous reasons why endeavors, such as home
businesses, fail. As discussed earlier, we have the power to
turn failure into success. Take note, however, that we can allow
failure to do two things --- to lock the door towards our
success or to serve as a key to open the door and lead us to our
success. Will you allow failure to lock that precious door? Or
will you use it to unlock and open the very same door that it
had locked? Here are some of those factors:
*LOCKED: Unclear business plan
*UNLOCK IT: Write out in detail a business plan that is clear,
complete, and goal-oriented. A business plan is the very
foundation of your business. Remember that failing to plan is
tantamount to planning to fail.
*LOCKED: Unclear goals
*UNLOCK IT: Formulate your goals and focus on them. How will you
achieve something if you are not sure of what you really want to
achieve?
*LOCKED: No specified target market
*UNLOCK IT: Clearly define your target market. By desiring to
sell to everyone, you may end up selling to no one at all.
Truly, only a handful of people succeed easily. Oftentimes,
success is the sweet fruit that you reap after toiling with
failure. It can be the key to your success. Yes, we all
experience failure in our lives. But the question is: Do we use
failure to make us better? Or do we just choose to be bitter?
So now you know a little bit about home business. Even if you
don't know everything, you've done something worthwhile: you've
expanded your knowledge.