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Failure: The Key Behind Big Success

By Guest Blogger on May 7, 2009 in Brainstorm

I have an admission I used to keep to myself: I have come to enjoy being a failure. George Cukor said, "You can't have any successes unless you accept failure." As a success coach, I believe, and remind myself and others, that it is the continued acceptance of ourselves as we fail that is a true measure of success in the making. Just how do we live failure as an art form? Read More

Success is no longer competing with failure

Submitted by Sofia Guerra on May 7, 2009 - 10:15pm.

I was compelled to finally understand that being successful doesn't mean the lack of failure. It's more of a cause and effect relationship and I was excited to understand it by heart. Sometimes we know things like this because we read them, or because we listen to them. But it's not that often when such simple words resonate like church bells inside of every single cell in my body, and this is how this blog sounded inside my body tonight. Most probably, if I had bumped into this yesterday, even tomorrow, I wouldn't have felt it so meaningful.

Thanks Saundra, I will buy your book as soon as I become successful and have the money to buy it!!

Thanks