The things that help us to become successful are sometimes the things that you would least expect. If you look at people who have become successful you could find that their road has been full of bumps and obstacles. I have often heard stories of people who have lost everything and have managed to get it back plus more. Many would think the way to become successful is to go to a good University and get a good degree. This idea could be further from the truth.
Is failure an ingredient of Success?
It has been found from the study of many millionaires that one of the ingredients for success is failure. This seems to be a very strange item, as failure is the opposite of success. But failure has been found to be one of the keys that can bring success to a person. So you may be asking how can failure be one of the things that brings success. Well the fact is when a person fails it is an opportunity to look at the failure and find out what caused the problem. If you can learn from failure you stand a good chance of going on to being successful.
View-Point
If you look at some successful billionaires who have lost everything, many have actually gone on to getting it all back plus more. So failures could be looked on as temporary set backs. So you could see that everything is just a matter of view-point. So one of the keys to things that happen in life is how we look at it. A person who sees a challenging situation as a potential opportunity could achieve more than someone who sees challenges as a great disappointment.
Turning A Problem Into An Opportunity
So we can see that the outlook that we have can be a key in us achieving success in life. Let us look at another example, imagine you had to walk up a long hill every morning to get to work. This walk could be seen as a very challenging situation. But then this journey could be looked at from another view-point. The journey up the hill could be seen as an excellent form of exercise. So depending on the view-point the situation can be bad or good.
Using Imagination
This gives us the opportunity to change things that appear negative into possible opportunities. And if that is the case your life could be richer by taking that out look. So from today you could change your life by virtue of changing your view-point. This now can allow your life to be more richer. So every time you are faced with a long hill to climb you could say I am thankful for the free exercise. The fact is many people pay vast amounts of money just to get exercise. We could see that success and failure are just ways of looking at things, and a challenge and an opportunity could also be different ways of looking at things.
The next time you are presented with a challenging situation you could say how can I turn this into an opportunity. With imagination you could change a problem into a source of new opportunity.
MGA Brown (c) July 2011
MGA Brown is the Author of winning book “Thoughts To Make You Think” to find out how you can benefit go to Http://www.toolsofsuccess.co.uk/
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