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The "F" Word
An
Article About Failure
In my younger years I longed to be rich
and famous .. my choice would have been a movie star, musician,
a fashion designer
or writer.
.
I did achieve a type of fame for a short
while, but not in the way
one would dream of ... like a number of other entrepreneurs
whom actually achieved good things in their time, we instead became
infamous for our colossal business failures.
Success cannot be achieved without some
level of failure.
We learned more from the university of
failure than any other business or psychological schooling could
have provided, which is probably why Kerry Packer was known
to insist that his future business partners had experienced some
form of financial loss before doing deals.
The great tragedy of this type of learning
however, is the people who get hurt and our own physical and mental scars.
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When a baby is born it does not come
with a manual or gps, neither is there one for those who step out
to become "somebody".
When times became tough in business, it
is tempting to allow the panic and fear to coerce ourselves into
cutting corners, indebting ourselves and to sway away from
integrity.
Honesty is Failure
Safe.
When you do eventually experience
failure, the speed of your recovery will be in direct correlation to
the level of integrity that you carried through in your business
dealings. Voodoo is alive and well in the business community!
Honesty is the
difference between thousands and millions.
Unfortunately in Australia we can relish failure and
enjoy to keep it alive ... it is a dis-ease that sometimes hinders
entrepreneurial recovery and forces those who do experience failure,
to flee, often to take their learning and future successes off
shore.
But perhaps it is all as it should be
....
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You will learn this ... the easy or hard way ...
SUCCESS IS INTEGRITY
I hope you enjoy your stay!
MadamSplash.
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