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00:00Failing Successfully by Sam Adeyemi
00:05Introduction. This sounds like a contradiction. However, our knowledge of success cannot be
00:10complete without knowing how to handle failure. Unsuccessful people are usually those who are so
00:16afraid of failure and rejection that they spend their lives avoiding the risks that could result
00:21in failure. They do not realize that those who avoid failure inevitably avoid success.
00:26Successful people are failures who refuse to quit trying while failures are potentially
00:31successful people who give up easily. Failure can be a blessing or a curse depending on our attitude.
00:38We must see failure as a stepping stone not a stumbling block with the right attitude. Failure
00:44will neither be fatal nor final. Successful people refer to their failure as learning experiences
00:51or temporary setbacks. They see their setback as a setup to come up. They know that it is their
00:57attitude not their aptitude that determines their altitude. Have you experienced failure in your
01:03marriage, examinations, business, or in your spiritual life? That failure is not an end.
01:09It is only a bend beyond the clouds. The sun is still shining that I declare by the Spirit of
01:15God
01:15that that failure will give birth to the most powerful testimony of your life. If you're preparing
01:21for an interview or examination, let us believe that all will be well. Now, dear friend, let me share
01:28with you how to turn your failure to fertilizer.
01:39Chapter one, have a right attitude to failure. What happens to you is really not the issue, but how you
01:46react
01:47to what life throws at you on your way to fulfilling purpose. Settle in your mind. You cannot travel the
01:53road
01:53to success without experiencing failure. Know that the seeds of success grow best in the ash saw failure,
02:00then turn failure into mileage posts on the road to success. Thomas Edison one failed in 10,000 experiments
02:08while attempting to invent the light bulb. After 5,000 failed experiments, his laboratory
02:14attendants say, Mr. Edison, we have failed 5,000 times. Shouldn't we stop? Mr. Edison replied, son,
02:22we have not failed 5,000 times. We have only discovered 5,000 ways in which it cannot work.
02:29We are closer to the solution now than when we started. You must keep on experimenting before you
02:34can find what will work for you. Each time you fail, you know that you have traveled farther on the
02:39road
02:39to breakthrough. Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company, once said, many people dream of success.
02:46To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failures and introspection. In fact,
02:53success only represents 1% of your work that results from 90% of that, which is called failure.
03:00Very few acquainted with failure will ever know the true joy of success. Dear friend, do not be afraid
03:07to fail. Success will not come without you taking a risk. And if you have tried and failed,
03:13congratulations. You are closer to success than those who have not tried at all. This is your day
03:18of supernatural turnaround. Chapter 2. Do not take failure personally. Failure as a person is different
03:26from failure as an event. That you failed an interview, an examination, or a sales pitch does not
03:34make you a failure. Who you are is different from what you have done. Failure as a person is different
03:40from failure as an event. That you failed an interview, an examination, or a sales pitch does
03:47not make you a failure. Who you are is different from what you have done. Don't let what you have
03:52done label you negatively. If what you have done does not agree with who you are, try again and again
03:59until the situation agrees with who you are in your heart. Do not say to yourself, I am a failure
04:05just
04:06because things did not work out. Right. If you do that, you have internalized your failure. And the law
04:12success says, first within and then without, or as he thinks in his heart. So is he. One, if you
04:21allow
04:21failure to get into your heart, it will follow you. Everywhere. Cheer up. God has destined you to be a
04:28success in life. It is too late for anyone or any situation to redefine your destiny. You must believe
04:36what God says about you more than what people or circumstances are saying. There's a winner inside you
04:42that won't give up now. Keep on trying until. Your circumstances reflect your true nature. Do not
04:48assassinate your own character every time you fail. Just tell yourself, I will do better next time.
04:54That you made a mistake does not make you a mistake. This marks the dawn a new day in your
05:00life.
05:00Chapter three, let failure change your direction. Usually failure is a sign that you need to change
05:07something. It is either a change in direction, approach or timing. If you keep hitting the wall
05:12and you believe there is a way, you may have to back up a little amulet for the door.
05:17John James Audubon is considered a pioneer in wildlife study and preservation in the United
05:23States. In the 1800s, he was an ordinary shopkeeper. He was finding it very difficult to support his
05:29family as a shopkeeper. In fact, after struggling for 11 years, he went bankrupt. It was that failure
05:36that prompted him into observing, drawing, and painting wildlife, which is what he is remembered
05:42for today. Dear friend, always remember that failure is the direct result of the swing. If
05:49things are not working, something is out of place. Be willing to make adjustments, prayerfully.
05:54Allow your mistakes to redirect you. You may be working in a place where you do not really fit.
05:59You may be in the wrong location. You may be selling a product that is not the best for your
06:04personality.
06:05Big doors swing on small hinges. Just a small change can result in an outstanding breakthrough.
06:11A publisher simply changed the cover of a book that was making poor sales and a sales figure explode.
06:17Don't keep knocking on the same door forever. There may be another one open near you. God will help
06:23you locate it. Chapter four, ask the right questions. There are questions which even if you get answers to
06:30will not change your situation. You must learn to ask the right questions. The quality of questions you
06:36ask will determine the quality of answers you get to turn failure into the fertilizer in which your
06:43seeds of success will grow. You must, one, have a correct attitude to failure. Two, refuse to take
06:51failure personally. And three, let failure change your direction. Now ask the right questions. When things go
06:59wrong, the natural tendency is for us to look for someone to blame. One day, as recorded in the
07:05scriptures, the disciples of Jesus saw a man that had been blind from birth. So they asked Jesus,
07:13whose sin was? If this man's parents were the man himself? Jesus replied, neither this man nor his
07:20parents sinned. One Jesus went ahead to open a man's eyes. Dear friend, there are questions which even if you
07:27get answers to or not. Change your situation. You must learn to ask the right questions. The quality
07:34of questions you ask will determine the quality of answers in the end. Do not look for someone to blame.
07:39A proverb says that the curse which does not have a sound reason will not rest on your life.
07:45If everything is right with you, know which can steal your destiny from God's hand. Therefore, ask why,
07:51not who. For example, ask questions like, where do I go from here? What lessons?
07:57Have I learned? What did I do right and what did I do wrong? Who has failed in this area
08:02before?
08:03And how can that person help me? To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself.
08:09And to improve yourself, you must take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
08:16Dear friend, God will turn your mess into a message and your failure into success.
08:21Chapter 5. Learn from your mistakes. To be successful, you have to develop the ability to
08:28learn from your mistakes. When you learn from your mistakes, you turn your failures in signposts on
08:34them. Road to success. This is another key for turning failure into fertilizer. To be successful,
08:41you have to develop the ability to learn from your mistakes. When you learn from your mistakes, you turn your
08:48failures into signposts on the road to success. John Maxwell, author and leadership expert once said,
08:55It's okay if you fall. Down as long as you learn something as you get up. John L., Mason one
09:01also, said,
09:02Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. No other elements can do so much for
09:11a man
09:11if he is willing to study them and to make the most out of them. Willingness to learn from failure
09:17and the ability
09:18to overcome failure are inseparably linked to each other. If you don't learn from your mistakes, you are going to
09:25make the same mistakes over and over. The psalmist said, It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
09:31that I may
09:32learn your statutes. Two, dear friend, make failure a learning experience. It will make failure a delay and not a
09:41defeat, a detour and not a dead end street. You will succeed. Chapter 6. Keep your vision in view.
09:48No matter what happens to you. No matter how many times you find yourself on the floor, ensure that you
09:54don't lose
09:55track of your vision. The ability to keep on seeing the big picture is one of the best tools for
10:00dealing with failure.
10:02The most influential person of all times, Jesus Christ, had a very good perspective of his setbacks. The scripture says,
10:10Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him in
10:18endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne. God won. He
10:25did not focus
10:26on the pain and shame of the cross because he knew they were temporary. He was looking at the end
10:31result.
10:32That gave him courage to bear the pain. Dear friend, you cannot judge your potential for success in business,
10:39marriage, or academics by your performance in the first or second year. If life were to be a static
10:46picture taken during our moment of failure, we would be in trouble. But life is not a static picture. It
10:52is a
10:53moving picture, and things have a tendency to change for the better, we believe. Someone said that the
11:00most unrealistic statistic is the score of halftime. Dear friend, are you halftime? Have you lost hope
11:06that things may never change again? Remember your original vision and tell yourself it is not over.
11:13Until it is over, dust yourself. Stand to your feet and get moving. It is there. Dawn a new day.
11:20It is a new
11:20beginning. Tomorrow will be all right. God is on your side. Nobody can be against you. This is your day
11:27for the restoration of all that the enemy has stolen. Chapter 7. Bounce back. As you travel on the road
11:35to
11:35success, you will have challenges. If you get knocked down, are you going to give up and stay down? Wallowing
11:42in your defeat? Or are you going to get back on your feet as quickly as you can? Dear friend,
11:49as you travel on
11:50road to success, you will have challenges. If you get knocked down, are you going to give up and stay
11:56down? Wallowing in your defeat? Or are you going to get back on your feet as quickly as you can?
12:02It is
12:02not how high you fall that matters. It is how high you bounce back. You can bounce back from failure
12:08to
12:09success in 30 seconds. That is enough time for you to decide to get up and get going. Austin O'Malley,
12:16an author, once said, the fact that you have been knocked. Down is interesting, but the length of
12:22time you remain down is important. Prophet Micah in the scripture said, do not rejoice over me, my enemy.
12:29When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light too. Me, one.
12:36When some
12:36people are knocked down, they stand up. But some others, when they're knocked down, they stay down.
12:42Some have been down for so long. It has become more comfortable for them to lie down than it is
12:48for them to rise up. They're no longer interested in getting up. They do not want to exert themselves.
12:54They're used to begging. Some even like to trip. Others up so they can give the excuse that they're
13:00not the only ones down. Avoid such people. But you, dear friend, if you get knocked down, make the best
13:06of
13:06the experience and get back on your feet. Like Henry Ford said, failure is the opportunity to begin
13:13again more intelligently. You will succeed. Chapter eight, measure your growth. Most people try to
13:20measure success by how little failure they can find to them. The fewer the failures, the more the success.
13:28However, successful people don't see that way. They have discovered that the more you fail,
13:34the more likely you are to succeed. Do not be afraid to fail. Do not waste energy trying to cover
13:41up failure. If you are not failing, you are not growing, says Stanley Judd. Dear friend, use failure
13:49to measure growth. Most people try to measure success by how little failure they can find to them. The fewer
13:56the failures, the more the success. However, successful people don't see it that way. They have discovered
14:03that the more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed. In fact, when successful people stop growing
14:10and learning, it is because they become less and less willing to risk failure. The editors of fortune
14:16magazine made a discovery several years ago. They analyzed successful people. They discovered that
14:23most of them failed an average of seven times before they succeeded. Dear friend, settle this in your mind.
14:30The more you try, the more failure you are likely to experience. And the greater the amount of success,
14:36too. I will rather succeed after making many mistakes than fail because I want everything to be perfect.
14:43The scripture says, he who observes the wind will not sell, and he who regards the clouds will not read.
14:50To each time you fail at A. Project, examine your progress. If you did better than your last attempt,
14:56you have made progress. That is how to fail successfully. Henry Ward, feature three once
15:02wrote, I don't like these cold, precise people who, in order, not to speak wrong, never speak at all,
15:09and in order not to do wrong, never. Do anything, dear friend, keep on keeping on. You will succeed.
15:16Chapter nine, persistence. It is not over until it's over. You are not yet a failure until you fail to
15:24try.
15:24Always remember that. Failure is not peculiar to you. Most successful people have scraps of broken
15:31dreams in the junkyards there. Lives, dear friend, do not give up. It is not over until it's over.
15:39You are not yet a failure until you fail to try. Always remember that failure is not peculiar to you.
15:47Most successful people have scraps of broken dreams in the junkyards of their lives. They can write
15:53volumes on how not to succeed. They have tried many things that did not work. However, the world has
16:00not recognized them for the many ventures in which they failed. No, they have been recognized for the
16:07few areas in which they have achieved outstanding success. Take the advice of an executive to a young
16:13manager. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Do not give up.
16:20Start from scratch and keep on scratching.