Saturday, January 17, 2009

“90% of all failure comes from quitting” - Paul J. Meyer

A follow up to a few of my previous posts: once you’ve “shown up” and are beginning a successful opportunity, statistically speaking, most of all failure is rooted in people simply quitting.
People quit for a number of reasons. Tired, burnt out, exhausted all of apparent options, lost, success is nowhere in sight, not really sure what the fight is for, no set goals, etc.
All people really need is basic motivation. A message, most of the time ridiculously simple… but delivered in a special way at just the right moment results in moving mountains and Olympic potential!
Remember Newton’s 1st law: “A [Person] in motion, tends to stay in motion… “
What would you say to someone about to quit, to encourage them not to give up, to help keep them in positive motion?

I know what I would say.
“Anything is possible.”
I love the photo of the cat hanging by one claw on a tree limb titled “Never Give up”.
There are NO wrong decisions (except for obvious physically dangerous ones – but even then if performed by an athlete…). There are only decisions that bring us that much closer to our goals. That’s why failure is so important. Without the process, you’ll never know if the goal you started out with is really the goal that you’re meant to achieve. If there was no failure, we wouldn’t truly know the miracle of life and the sweetest taste of victory.

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