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FAILING FORWARD
TURNING MISTAKES INTO STEPPING STONES
FOR SUCCESS – JOHN C MAXWELL
ANGELBERT M ORSENO
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AGSB, CLARK, PH
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND CREDITS
John Maxwell is an expert
on leadership. He has written
more than 20 books and
speaks to more than 250,000
people every year.
THOUGHT ON THE SUBJECT
The difference between
average people and
achieving people is their
perception of and their
response to failure. This
impacts every aspect of their
lives. Failure is not a single
event, it is a process.
CHAPTER 1 - REALIZE THAT THERE IS ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN AVERAGE PEOPLE AND ACHIEVING PEOPLE
7 abilities achievers posses that enable them
to fail and not take it personally and keep
them moving forward:
1. Achievers reject rejections – people don’t
give up trying because they don’t base their
self in performance, instead they have an
internally self based image. Take responsibility
for actions, but don’t take failure personally.
2. Achiever see failure as temporary.
3. Achievers see failures as isolated incidents –
when achievers fail they see it as momentary
event not a lifelong epidemic. It’s not
personal.
CHAPTER 1 - REALIZE THAT THERE IS ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN AVERAGE PEOPLE AND ACHIEVING PEOPLE
7 abilities achievers posses that enable them to fail
and not take it personally and keep them moving
forward:
4. Achievers keep expectation realistic
5. Achievers focus on strengths -what distinguishes
winners from losers - winners concentrate at all times
on what they can do and not what can’t they do.
6 Achievers vary approaches to achievements – they
are willing to vary their approaches to problems
7. Achievers bounce back – life is a series of outcome,
sometimes the outcome is what you want, sometimes
the outcome is not what you don’t want. Figure out
what you did wrong so you are not doing it again.
CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED
FAILURE AND SETBACKS
Wolfgang Mozart was told by the emperor
that his opera was too noisy and have too
many notes.
CHAPTER 2 - LEARN A NEW DEFINITION OF FAILURE
AND SUCCESS
People are too quick to
isolate events in their life
and label them as failure –
need to see them in the
context of the bigger
picture.
CHAPTER 2 - LEARN A NEW DEFINITION OF FAILURE
AND SUCCESS
7 things failure is not:
1. Failure is not avoidable – people thinks failure is avoidable, it
is not. Human being make mistakes; humans are bound to fail
sooner or later.
2. Failure is not an event, but a process – people thinks failure is
an event, it is not. Success is not a destination – it is the journey
you take and what you do day to day – success is a process,
and so is failure.
3. Failure is not objective. You are the only person who can
label your actions a failure.
4. Failure is not the enemy – people try to avoid failure like a
plague. But it takes adversity to achieve success – failure is a
fertilizer.
CHAPTER 2 - LEARN A NEW DEFINITION OF FAILURE
AND SUCCESS
7 things failure is not (cont):
5. Failure is not irreversible – mistakes are not irreversible. Don’t
look on the failure but look on the bigger picture.
6. Failure is not a stigma – mistakes are not permanent markers.
When you make mistakes don’t let people think you are down. Make
each failure a step to success.
7. Failure is not final – failure is simply a price we pay to achieve
success and if we learn to embrace that new definition of
failure, then we can move ahead. It’s the price you pay for
success.
CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED
FAILURE AND SETBACKS
Vincent van Gogh sold only 1 painting
during his life time.
CHAPTER 3: REMOVE THE ‘U’ FROM FAILURE
• If you have failed, are you a failure?
– Pain of failure leads to fear of failure.
* Three ways people respond to fear of failing:
1. Paralysis – people stop doing anything that might lead to
failure
2. Procrastination – steals people time, productivity; too high
price to pay for failure
3. Purposelessness – avoidance of pain of making mistakes.
Fear of failure resulting in inactivity compounds; people exhibit
additional negativity, self-pity, excuse, misused of energy and
feeling hopelessness
CHAPTER 3: REMOVE THE ‘U’ FROM FAILURE
We can’t avoid fear and we can’t wait for motivation to get
going. To conquer it, you have to feel the fear and take
action anyway. You have to know that you will make
mistakes. As soon as you take action it gets easier. George
Bernard Shaw said “a life spent in making mistakes is not only
more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
Experience brings and gains confidence and competence -
the whole process starts with action.
Fear also paralyzes high achievers. When it comes to
overcoming failure – you have to take action to reduce your
fear.
CHAPTER 4 – FIND THE EXIT OFF THE FAILURE FREEWAY
• People who get used to failure make the same
mistake over and over.
• If you always do what you’ve always done then you
will always get what you’ve always gotten.
• The people who stay on the failure freeway see
every obstacle as someone’s fault.
CHAPTER 5 – CHANGE YOUR RESPONSE TO FAILURE BY
ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITIES
People’s reactions to failure
1. They are angry – taking frustration out on others.
2. They cover up mistakes – people most of the time
cover up mistakes and afraid to take responsibilities.
3. They speed up – people will try to leave troubles
behind by working harder and faster, but without
changing direction.
4. They back up. May lie first and then back up to
cover up. The capacity and ability to admit it.
5. They give up.
Every failure is an opportunity to take the right action and begin
again. We need to take full responsibility and admit mistakes. It
takes character – but we need to get ahead of ourselves and take
responsibility for our actions.
CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED
FAILURE AND SETBACKS
Nikola Tesla proposed the use of energy
waves to detect German submarines at
the beginning of World War 1 (known
today as RADAR). Thomas Edison rejected
his idea as ludicrous
CHAPTER 6 – DON’T LET FAILURE OUTSIDE OF YOU GET
INSIDE OF YOU
No matter what happens to you, failure is an inside job. We
can’t control the cards we’re dealt, but we can control the
way we handle them.
Start by cultivating the right attitude. The law of human
behavior- sooner or later we get exactly what we expect – is
this optimistic or pessimistic? – The answer reflects your
attitude.
Martin Seligman observes that people who bounce back are
optimists. No matter your natural bent, you can cultivate
optimism by learning contentment.
CHAPTER 6 – DON’T LET FAILURE OUTSIDE OF YOU GET
INSIDE OF YOU
Contentment is not:
1. Containing your emotions
2. It’s not maintaining your current situation - it means having a
good attitude as work yourself out of it
3. Not power or money – true contentment comes from having a
positive attitude – seeing solutions in every problem, believing in
yourself and holding on to hope. No matter what happens to you
a positive attitude comes from within.
“Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. The real and lasting
limitations are created in our minds”.
CHAPTER 7 – SAY GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY – IS THE PAST
HOLDING YOUR LIFE HOSTAGE?
The ability to put things behind and move on is important. Tragedies don’t
have to stop a person from being productive and moving forward. No
matter how dark a person’s past is, it need not color their future. People
experience either a breakdown or breakthrough.
Signs of being held hostage by our past:
1. Comparison
2. Rationalization – excuses never lead to achievement
3. Isolation – withdrawal
4. Regret – it saps a person’s energy
5. Bitterness – the inevitable consequence of not processing old injuries.
Past hurts can make you bitter or better – it’s up to you.
Start by acknowledging the pain.
Forgive others or yourself if need be.
CHAPTER 8 – CHANGE YOURSELF AND YOUR WORLD
CHANGES
If you are continuing facing obstacles – make sure that you are
not the problem.
Why are people so hesitant to change? Is it because they
don’t know what their strengths are?
To reach your potential you need to know who you are:
• See yourself clearly – need to see both good and bad
• Admit your flaws accurately – own up to what you can do or
should not do
• Work on your strengths – to excel do what you do well.
• Build on your strengths passionately.
“Not pursuing what you want is a
problem of motivation, not achieving is a
problem of persistence.“
CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED
FAILURE AND SETBACKS
Samuel Truett Cathy, the key
behind the success of one of
America’s chicken chain – Chick-
fil-A, lost his 2 brothers in a plane
accident in the early days while
they were putting up the
business. Following that incident,
he was stricken with serious
medical condition.
CHAPTER 9 – GET OVER YOURSELF AND START GIVING
YOURSELF
Turn attention away from yourself and toward helping others.
Anybody can touch the lives of others and make a difference.
We must improve approach to success; we need to think of others
and not just be self-absorbed. Most people are too insecure to
help others. Developing a giving spirit helps overcome feelings of
deficiency in a positive way.
How to add value to others:
1. Put others first in your thinking when you meet them.
2. Find out what others need – what do they value – how they
spend their time and money is a clue to what they value.
3. Meeting the needs of others with excellence and generosity –
offer your best with no thought to what you’ll receive in return.
“Giving is the highest level of living.”
CHAPTER 10 – FIND THE BENEFIT IN EVERY BAD
EXPERIENCE
Grasp the positive effects of negative incidents.
The only way you can get ahead is to fail early, fail often and
fail forward.
Every dream that people achieve comes from attention to a
process. The process of success comes from repeated failure.
Adversity should be expected in the process of succeeding.
CHAPTER 10 – FIND THE BENEFIT IN EVERY BAD
EXPERIENCE
The benefits of adversity are many:
1. Adversity creates resilience.
2. Adversity develops maturity – maturity with flexibility
becomes increasingly more important. Those qualities come
from facing adversity. The problems we face and overcome
prepare are hearts for future difficulties.
3. Adversity pushes the envelope of future performance -
each fall makes you able to risk more.
4. Adversity provides greater opportunities.
5. Adversity prompts innovation.
6. Adversity brings unexpected benefits.
7. Adversity motivates.
“There are almost always positive benefits
from negative experiences – we just have
to look for them. “
CHAPTER 11 – TAKE A RISK – THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO
FAIL FORWARD
Risk allows for pioneering. Nothing can be accomplished if we
don’t take any chances at all. How do you judge if some activity
is worth the risk?
Risk must be evaluated neither by the fear that it generates nor
by the probability of success but by the value of the goal.
If at first you do succeed – try something harder. Decide
whether the goal is worth the risk involved – everything in life is
risky. There are no safe places – avoiding danger is not any safer.
Also risk failure when you stand still and don’t try anything new.
The more you risk failure and actually fail – the greater the
chances for success.
CHAPTER 11 – TAKE A RISK – THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO
FAIL FORWARD
Why do people avoid risk? People fall into one or more of the
following traps:
1. The embarrassment trap.
2. The rationalization trap – people who second-guess
everything they do and then decide it isn’t important.
3. The unrealistic expectation trap – success takes hard work.
4. The fairness trap – life is not fair, and that’s a fact.
5. The timing trap – there is no perfect time to do anything –
don’t wait for all the lights to be green to leave the house.
6. The inspiration trap – you don’t have to be great to start but
you do have to start to be great.
CHAPTER 12 – LEARN FROM A BAD EXPERIENCE AND
MAKE FAILURE YOUR BEST FRIEND
Failure is either your best friend or your enemy. If you learn from
your failures then it can become your best friend.
All it requires is your attitude. The attitude after failure defines
your altitude after failure. Ask the following questions:
1. What caused the failure? Where did things fall down? Did
you make a mistake? Did others make a mistake?
2. Was what happened truly a failure or where did things fall
short – was the goal unrealistic?
3. What successes are contained in the failure?
4. What can I learn from what happened?
(cont…)
CHAPTER 12 – LEARN FROM A BAD EXPERIENCE AND
MAKE FAILURE YOUR BEST FRIEND
5. Am I grateful for the experience? Cultivate an attitude of
gratitude.
6. How can I turn this into a success? Draw dividends from defeat –
analyze defeat and determine how to use it for your benefit.
7. Who can help me with this issue? Learn from the mistakes from
others as much as possible
8. Where do I go from here? Once all the thinking is done take
action and use the experience
CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED
FAILURE AND SETBACKS
Steve Jobs, the industrialist icon,
loss in a power struggle resulting
to his outage from his own
company.
CHAPTER 13 – WORK ON THE WEAKNESS THAT WEAKENS
YOU
Ten most frequent reason why people fail:
1. Poor people skills. This is the top reason that leaders
fail. This skill will take you farther than any other skill you
can develop.
2. A negative attitude. If your situation is always getting
you down, maybe it’s a result of your attitude.
3. A bad fit. Sometimes a situation change is also in
order.
4. Lack of focus – priorities are out of whack which is a
poor use of resources.
5. Weak commitment – can’t accomplish anything of
value without commitment.
CHAPTER 13 – WORK ON THE WEAKNESS THAT WEAKENS
YOU
6. Unwillingness to change – inflexibility. Some people
are so in love with the past that they won’t make
changes. If you resist change, you are really resisting
success.
7. A shortcut mindset. Victory belongs to the most
persevering. Cutting corners is a sign of impatience
and poor self-discipline
8. Relying on talent alone. Don’t skip the hard work of
improving it.
9. Acting on poor information.
10. Not having any goals. Many people haven’t
allowed themselves to dream. You need to find your
purpose.
CHAPTER 14 – UNDERSTAND THERE IS NOT MUCH
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAILURE AND SUCCESS
The little difference between failure and success
makes a big difference. The quality that makes the
difference is persistence.
Nothing worth achieving comes easily – cultivate
tenacity and persistence.
CHAPTER 14 – UNDERSTAND THERE IS NOT MUCH
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAILURE AND SUCCESS
A four-point plan for approaching achievement:
1. Find a purpose – purpose is the fuel that powers
persistence.
a. Get next to people who possess great desire
b. Develop discontent with the status quo
c. Search for a goal
d. Put your possessions into that goal
e. Visualize enjoying the rewards of that goal
2. Eliminate excuses. Have to keep moving forward.
Take complete responsibility.
3. Develop incentives. Persistence is many short
races.
4. Cultivate determination. To develop persistence
one has to continuously develop determination.
CHAPTER 15 – GET UP, GET OVER IT AND GET GOING
It’s what you do after you get back up that is important. Figure out
what to do so that you don’t continue falling down. You need a
plan that helps determine what to do after you get back up:
(Acronym FORWARD)
1. Finalize your goal – the goal shapes the plan, the plan shapes the
action, the action achieves the results
2. Order your plan. If you neglect to plan you plan to fail.
3. Risk failing by taking action.
4. Welcome mistakes – embrace the learning from mistakes
5. Advance based on your character – always a time when giving
up is easier. There will be a defining moment
6. Reevaluate your progress continually. Learn and adjust.
7. Develop new strategies to succeed. Success is a continual
process. There will never be a perfect plan – need to constantly
reevaluate and adjust.
Thank you.
“Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”
- John Maxwell

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Book report failing forward - am orseno

  • 1. FAILING FORWARD TURNING MISTAKES INTO STEPPING STONES FOR SUCCESS – JOHN C MAXWELL ANGELBERT M ORSENO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AGSB, CLARK, PH
  • 2. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND CREDITS John Maxwell is an expert on leadership. He has written more than 20 books and speaks to more than 250,000 people every year.
  • 3. THOUGHT ON THE SUBJECT The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and their response to failure. This impacts every aspect of their lives. Failure is not a single event, it is a process.
  • 4. CHAPTER 1 - REALIZE THAT THERE IS ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AVERAGE PEOPLE AND ACHIEVING PEOPLE 7 abilities achievers posses that enable them to fail and not take it personally and keep them moving forward: 1. Achievers reject rejections – people don’t give up trying because they don’t base their self in performance, instead they have an internally self based image. Take responsibility for actions, but don’t take failure personally. 2. Achiever see failure as temporary. 3. Achievers see failures as isolated incidents – when achievers fail they see it as momentary event not a lifelong epidemic. It’s not personal.
  • 5. CHAPTER 1 - REALIZE THAT THERE IS ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AVERAGE PEOPLE AND ACHIEVING PEOPLE 7 abilities achievers posses that enable them to fail and not take it personally and keep them moving forward: 4. Achievers keep expectation realistic 5. Achievers focus on strengths -what distinguishes winners from losers - winners concentrate at all times on what they can do and not what can’t they do. 6 Achievers vary approaches to achievements – they are willing to vary their approaches to problems 7. Achievers bounce back – life is a series of outcome, sometimes the outcome is what you want, sometimes the outcome is not what you don’t want. Figure out what you did wrong so you are not doing it again.
  • 6. CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED FAILURE AND SETBACKS Wolfgang Mozart was told by the emperor that his opera was too noisy and have too many notes.
  • 7. CHAPTER 2 - LEARN A NEW DEFINITION OF FAILURE AND SUCCESS People are too quick to isolate events in their life and label them as failure – need to see them in the context of the bigger picture.
  • 8. CHAPTER 2 - LEARN A NEW DEFINITION OF FAILURE AND SUCCESS 7 things failure is not: 1. Failure is not avoidable – people thinks failure is avoidable, it is not. Human being make mistakes; humans are bound to fail sooner or later. 2. Failure is not an event, but a process – people thinks failure is an event, it is not. Success is not a destination – it is the journey you take and what you do day to day – success is a process, and so is failure. 3. Failure is not objective. You are the only person who can label your actions a failure. 4. Failure is not the enemy – people try to avoid failure like a plague. But it takes adversity to achieve success – failure is a fertilizer.
  • 9. CHAPTER 2 - LEARN A NEW DEFINITION OF FAILURE AND SUCCESS 7 things failure is not (cont): 5. Failure is not irreversible – mistakes are not irreversible. Don’t look on the failure but look on the bigger picture. 6. Failure is not a stigma – mistakes are not permanent markers. When you make mistakes don’t let people think you are down. Make each failure a step to success. 7. Failure is not final – failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success and if we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we can move ahead. It’s the price you pay for success.
  • 10. CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED FAILURE AND SETBACKS Vincent van Gogh sold only 1 painting during his life time.
  • 11. CHAPTER 3: REMOVE THE ‘U’ FROM FAILURE • If you have failed, are you a failure? – Pain of failure leads to fear of failure. * Three ways people respond to fear of failing: 1. Paralysis – people stop doing anything that might lead to failure 2. Procrastination – steals people time, productivity; too high price to pay for failure 3. Purposelessness – avoidance of pain of making mistakes. Fear of failure resulting in inactivity compounds; people exhibit additional negativity, self-pity, excuse, misused of energy and feeling hopelessness
  • 12. CHAPTER 3: REMOVE THE ‘U’ FROM FAILURE We can’t avoid fear and we can’t wait for motivation to get going. To conquer it, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. You have to know that you will make mistakes. As soon as you take action it gets easier. George Bernard Shaw said “a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Experience brings and gains confidence and competence - the whole process starts with action. Fear also paralyzes high achievers. When it comes to overcoming failure – you have to take action to reduce your fear.
  • 13. CHAPTER 4 – FIND THE EXIT OFF THE FAILURE FREEWAY • People who get used to failure make the same mistake over and over. • If you always do what you’ve always done then you will always get what you’ve always gotten. • The people who stay on the failure freeway see every obstacle as someone’s fault.
  • 14. CHAPTER 5 – CHANGE YOUR RESPONSE TO FAILURE BY ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITIES People’s reactions to failure 1. They are angry – taking frustration out on others. 2. They cover up mistakes – people most of the time cover up mistakes and afraid to take responsibilities. 3. They speed up – people will try to leave troubles behind by working harder and faster, but without changing direction. 4. They back up. May lie first and then back up to cover up. The capacity and ability to admit it. 5. They give up. Every failure is an opportunity to take the right action and begin again. We need to take full responsibility and admit mistakes. It takes character – but we need to get ahead of ourselves and take responsibility for our actions.
  • 15. CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED FAILURE AND SETBACKS Nikola Tesla proposed the use of energy waves to detect German submarines at the beginning of World War 1 (known today as RADAR). Thomas Edison rejected his idea as ludicrous
  • 16. CHAPTER 6 – DON’T LET FAILURE OUTSIDE OF YOU GET INSIDE OF YOU No matter what happens to you, failure is an inside job. We can’t control the cards we’re dealt, but we can control the way we handle them. Start by cultivating the right attitude. The law of human behavior- sooner or later we get exactly what we expect – is this optimistic or pessimistic? – The answer reflects your attitude. Martin Seligman observes that people who bounce back are optimists. No matter your natural bent, you can cultivate optimism by learning contentment.
  • 17. CHAPTER 6 – DON’T LET FAILURE OUTSIDE OF YOU GET INSIDE OF YOU Contentment is not: 1. Containing your emotions 2. It’s not maintaining your current situation - it means having a good attitude as work yourself out of it 3. Not power or money – true contentment comes from having a positive attitude – seeing solutions in every problem, believing in yourself and holding on to hope. No matter what happens to you a positive attitude comes from within. “Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. The real and lasting limitations are created in our minds”.
  • 18. CHAPTER 7 – SAY GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY – IS THE PAST HOLDING YOUR LIFE HOSTAGE? The ability to put things behind and move on is important. Tragedies don’t have to stop a person from being productive and moving forward. No matter how dark a person’s past is, it need not color their future. People experience either a breakdown or breakthrough. Signs of being held hostage by our past: 1. Comparison 2. Rationalization – excuses never lead to achievement 3. Isolation – withdrawal 4. Regret – it saps a person’s energy 5. Bitterness – the inevitable consequence of not processing old injuries. Past hurts can make you bitter or better – it’s up to you. Start by acknowledging the pain. Forgive others or yourself if need be.
  • 19. CHAPTER 8 – CHANGE YOURSELF AND YOUR WORLD CHANGES If you are continuing facing obstacles – make sure that you are not the problem. Why are people so hesitant to change? Is it because they don’t know what their strengths are? To reach your potential you need to know who you are: • See yourself clearly – need to see both good and bad • Admit your flaws accurately – own up to what you can do or should not do • Work on your strengths – to excel do what you do well. • Build on your strengths passionately. “Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation, not achieving is a problem of persistence.“
  • 20. CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED FAILURE AND SETBACKS Samuel Truett Cathy, the key behind the success of one of America’s chicken chain – Chick- fil-A, lost his 2 brothers in a plane accident in the early days while they were putting up the business. Following that incident, he was stricken with serious medical condition.
  • 21. CHAPTER 9 – GET OVER YOURSELF AND START GIVING YOURSELF Turn attention away from yourself and toward helping others. Anybody can touch the lives of others and make a difference. We must improve approach to success; we need to think of others and not just be self-absorbed. Most people are too insecure to help others. Developing a giving spirit helps overcome feelings of deficiency in a positive way. How to add value to others: 1. Put others first in your thinking when you meet them. 2. Find out what others need – what do they value – how they spend their time and money is a clue to what they value. 3. Meeting the needs of others with excellence and generosity – offer your best with no thought to what you’ll receive in return. “Giving is the highest level of living.”
  • 22. CHAPTER 10 – FIND THE BENEFIT IN EVERY BAD EXPERIENCE Grasp the positive effects of negative incidents. The only way you can get ahead is to fail early, fail often and fail forward. Every dream that people achieve comes from attention to a process. The process of success comes from repeated failure. Adversity should be expected in the process of succeeding.
  • 23. CHAPTER 10 – FIND THE BENEFIT IN EVERY BAD EXPERIENCE The benefits of adversity are many: 1. Adversity creates resilience. 2. Adversity develops maturity – maturity with flexibility becomes increasingly more important. Those qualities come from facing adversity. The problems we face and overcome prepare are hearts for future difficulties. 3. Adversity pushes the envelope of future performance - each fall makes you able to risk more. 4. Adversity provides greater opportunities. 5. Adversity prompts innovation. 6. Adversity brings unexpected benefits. 7. Adversity motivates. “There are almost always positive benefits from negative experiences – we just have to look for them. “
  • 24. CHAPTER 11 – TAKE A RISK – THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO FAIL FORWARD Risk allows for pioneering. Nothing can be accomplished if we don’t take any chances at all. How do you judge if some activity is worth the risk? Risk must be evaluated neither by the fear that it generates nor by the probability of success but by the value of the goal. If at first you do succeed – try something harder. Decide whether the goal is worth the risk involved – everything in life is risky. There are no safe places – avoiding danger is not any safer. Also risk failure when you stand still and don’t try anything new. The more you risk failure and actually fail – the greater the chances for success.
  • 25. CHAPTER 11 – TAKE A RISK – THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO FAIL FORWARD Why do people avoid risk? People fall into one or more of the following traps: 1. The embarrassment trap. 2. The rationalization trap – people who second-guess everything they do and then decide it isn’t important. 3. The unrealistic expectation trap – success takes hard work. 4. The fairness trap – life is not fair, and that’s a fact. 5. The timing trap – there is no perfect time to do anything – don’t wait for all the lights to be green to leave the house. 6. The inspiration trap – you don’t have to be great to start but you do have to start to be great.
  • 26. CHAPTER 12 – LEARN FROM A BAD EXPERIENCE AND MAKE FAILURE YOUR BEST FRIEND Failure is either your best friend or your enemy. If you learn from your failures then it can become your best friend. All it requires is your attitude. The attitude after failure defines your altitude after failure. Ask the following questions: 1. What caused the failure? Where did things fall down? Did you make a mistake? Did others make a mistake? 2. Was what happened truly a failure or where did things fall short – was the goal unrealistic? 3. What successes are contained in the failure? 4. What can I learn from what happened? (cont…)
  • 27. CHAPTER 12 – LEARN FROM A BAD EXPERIENCE AND MAKE FAILURE YOUR BEST FRIEND 5. Am I grateful for the experience? Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. 6. How can I turn this into a success? Draw dividends from defeat – analyze defeat and determine how to use it for your benefit. 7. Who can help me with this issue? Learn from the mistakes from others as much as possible 8. Where do I go from here? Once all the thinking is done take action and use the experience
  • 28. CHECKPOINT – PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED FAILURE AND SETBACKS Steve Jobs, the industrialist icon, loss in a power struggle resulting to his outage from his own company.
  • 29. CHAPTER 13 – WORK ON THE WEAKNESS THAT WEAKENS YOU Ten most frequent reason why people fail: 1. Poor people skills. This is the top reason that leaders fail. This skill will take you farther than any other skill you can develop. 2. A negative attitude. If your situation is always getting you down, maybe it’s a result of your attitude. 3. A bad fit. Sometimes a situation change is also in order. 4. Lack of focus – priorities are out of whack which is a poor use of resources. 5. Weak commitment – can’t accomplish anything of value without commitment.
  • 30. CHAPTER 13 – WORK ON THE WEAKNESS THAT WEAKENS YOU 6. Unwillingness to change – inflexibility. Some people are so in love with the past that they won’t make changes. If you resist change, you are really resisting success. 7. A shortcut mindset. Victory belongs to the most persevering. Cutting corners is a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline 8. Relying on talent alone. Don’t skip the hard work of improving it. 9. Acting on poor information. 10. Not having any goals. Many people haven’t allowed themselves to dream. You need to find your purpose.
  • 31. CHAPTER 14 – UNDERSTAND THERE IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAILURE AND SUCCESS The little difference between failure and success makes a big difference. The quality that makes the difference is persistence. Nothing worth achieving comes easily – cultivate tenacity and persistence.
  • 32. CHAPTER 14 – UNDERSTAND THERE IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAILURE AND SUCCESS A four-point plan for approaching achievement: 1. Find a purpose – purpose is the fuel that powers persistence. a. Get next to people who possess great desire b. Develop discontent with the status quo c. Search for a goal d. Put your possessions into that goal e. Visualize enjoying the rewards of that goal 2. Eliminate excuses. Have to keep moving forward. Take complete responsibility. 3. Develop incentives. Persistence is many short races. 4. Cultivate determination. To develop persistence one has to continuously develop determination.
  • 33. CHAPTER 15 – GET UP, GET OVER IT AND GET GOING It’s what you do after you get back up that is important. Figure out what to do so that you don’t continue falling down. You need a plan that helps determine what to do after you get back up: (Acronym FORWARD) 1. Finalize your goal – the goal shapes the plan, the plan shapes the action, the action achieves the results 2. Order your plan. If you neglect to plan you plan to fail. 3. Risk failing by taking action. 4. Welcome mistakes – embrace the learning from mistakes 5. Advance based on your character – always a time when giving up is easier. There will be a defining moment 6. Reevaluate your progress continually. Learn and adjust. 7. Develop new strategies to succeed. Success is a continual process. There will never be a perfect plan – need to constantly reevaluate and adjust.
  • 34. Thank you. “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.” - John Maxwell