Abraham Lincoln said, "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Those sentiments are as true today as they were almost 150 years ago when Lincoln first spoke them.

You can’t put on blinders to failure. Like death and taxes, failing to achieve your expected result is inevitable in the life of every human being. The more important component of failing is the lesson. What do you learn when your efforts fail to deliver the desired results? Do you shrug it off, walk away and chalk it up to another loss? Or do you stop to analyze what went wrong?

Failing at something is not a measure of the person you are, but of the decision you made. Or it simply means you have to make a different effort the next time. Don’t personalize an outcome and use it as a measuring stick of your competence. Failing is an event. Failure is the person who accepts failing as a foregone conclusion.

I have presented many seminars to people who came because they felt defeated. They had allowed unsuccessful efforts to take control of their present and future. The fear of failing again paralyzed them.

People who are in Research and Development for pharmaceuticals deal with one failed effort after another. But they learn from every, single step that went wrong. If they didn’t persevere, we would have no hope of curing diseases and lives would be lost needlessly.

In the new homes sales marketplace, failing to close a deal does not make you failure. Accepting the outcome, however, does.

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