If you have a history of failures in business and relationships, at what point does the label actually apply?
2006-06-21 03:13:40 · 25 answers · asked by glasseye22 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Failing makes you human. Giving up and not trying makes you a failure.
2006-06-21 03:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by Elle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Have you ever succeeded? At which point does that make you successful? You see the irony. To some you will be labeled a failure. Get over it.
2) Read the History of Abraham Lincoln. He failed at so many things. I guarantee he could not get a small business loan or buy a house today. Yet he KEPT going and became one of the greatest statesmen of all time. So the question we should all be asking is not "am I a officially a failure yet?" but what have I done well, and how can I correct the mistakes of the past?
2006-06-21 11:31:28 · answer #2 · answered by Buffy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you fail to learn from previous failure, and then go on to fail because of it. If you cannot see what it is that make you fail in business or relationships, and do not correct or change behavior to avoid failure, then yes, the label applies.
2006-06-21 10:23:38 · answer #3 · answered by coffeebean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Failure is the pathway to success. Without it you wouldn't have success. I want to be a really good failure. Colonel Sanders was turned down over 600 times when he 65 years old trying to start his restaurant. There are a lot of stories about the failures of people we see today as successful. Check out the book "Storms of Perfection" - Andy Andrews.
2006-06-21 13:49:05 · answer #4 · answered by Brzo Biciklo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My motto is "action first!
A lot of people will analyze and research an issue and do absolutely nothing toward achieving a particular end. That in my opinion is failure.
The word failure itself has a negative connotation to it. If you didn't succeed at a particular task or function, did you fail or did you just not have a desired or favorable outcome?
2006-06-21 10:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sam B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. It will challenge me to the point where I am going to succeed. And I will. All you have to do is think positive. If you stumble and fall, don't complain. Sooner or later you will find yourself into a pedestal. If life hands you a lemon, don't complain. Instead, make a lemonade out of it. And never, never accept failure because no matter what, you can't be a failure. you are always special. Your relatives and friends loves you...everybody loves you. And I love you because you are special. You are not a failure.
2006-06-21 10:22:01 · answer #6 · answered by desolate woman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your not a failure untill you give up. Right you are not a failure because you keep trying to not fail at certain things.
2006-06-21 10:16:04 · answer #7 · answered by Erik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only when you allow it to! Perhaps what you are seeing as failures is simply learning pains.. Perhaps what you have been doing in business or the relationships you get involved in fail because it's not for you. It could be your universes' way of saying...thats not what you'e suppose to be doing.
Trust your instincts more, and never, ever stop trying.
2006-06-21 15:53:11 · answer #8 · answered by star_baby10801 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you aren't making mistakes, you aren't doing enough. You are only a failure when you give up completely. Sometimes we have to let go of our dreams. For example, I'll never make it into outer space.... But we can have new dreams.
Harry Truman was a failed store owner, who became President of the United States.
2006-06-21 10:39:37 · answer #9 · answered by Caffiend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you rate your life on how well you do at external task then you very well may be a failure at the point when you can not fulfill this view of life that you have formulated. Everyone fails at something.
2006-06-21 10:16:18 · answer #10 · answered by JazzyJB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋