Why am I so scared of failure to the point that I think outside the word of God in other to avert it ?
I have pondered on this and realized, that there is a fundamental problem. Over the years I have been thought wrongly what failure is, I have been flogged, shamed and rejected because I failed in one area or the other.
Still in my study, I have seen, that the Bible does not teach that failure is the end, the people we all see as our role models have all failed multiple times. The difference between them and those we regard as failures is that they knew failure was part of the journey to success.
I am speaking to your mind today, I want you to reason these things out, please see with me that failure is a right step towards success.
Let me share with you, some people the world called failures.
1. Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five time before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.
2. Soichiro Honda: The billion-dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business.
3. Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.
4. Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einstein’s name as synonymous with genius, but he didn’t always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
5. Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked.
6. J. K. Rowling: Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.
7. Michael Jordan: Most people wouldn’t believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team. Luckily, Jordan didn’t let this setback stop him from playing the game and he has stated, “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
8. Madiba:
Nelson Mandela initially failed so miserably at ending apartheid, that he was caught and imprisoned. Most would think that being confined between four walls on an island for 25 years would kill his spirit – but no. He went on to become President of South Africa, entering the world's history books as South Africa's first black president, South Africa's first democratically elected president, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is also depicted on South Africa's paper currency and remains a symbol of faith, forgiveness and perseverance.
Will you call these people failures today ? No, you won't. Because you are seeing "the finished products". Don't quit because you fail, for he who quits before succeeding is the one who truly fails.
“For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.”
Job 14:7-9 KJV
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