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Failure Is Your Friend

December 12, 2022 John Uncategorized No comments

The idea of failure can send a shiver up your spine. But it’s time to give it a second look.

This GenuLines look at failure flips the script in your favor. .

Failure Is Your Friend

There’s no shortage of content about success. A quick search about any business-related subject will show you a slew of stuff.

Search Amazon using the word “success”. What are your search results going to be?

Hundreds and hundreds of books whose subject revolves around being successful at something.

Now, this is not actually a bad thing. Everyone wants to be successful at whatever it is they’re doing.

This is especially true in a business environment.

Good Business

In business, success means a satisfied and happy customer base. It means demand for your product or service exceeds supply.

It means having a lean and flexible organization. Most of all, it means a comfortable profit margin.

The thing is, success isn’t all about success. Let me put that another way.

When all you do is concentrate on the positive end results of being successful, you miss the point. You see, it’s ironic, but real success isn’t about succeeding.

Instead, it’s about failure.

Hush Hush

No one wants to talk about failure. People tend to avoid both the word and the concept.

Listen to talk about failure and you find it’s treated as a moral lesson. The person who failed becomes an example of how not to do things.

Could some internal personal flaw have caused the failure? This kind of thinking can be damaging.

It perpetuates the myth of winners who succeed with almost no effort. That their win was due to some sort of superior moral compass.

The truth is that you must fail to succeed.

Oscar Wilde said that experience is the name that we give our mistakes. Nothing could be truer.

Learn From Your Mistakes

Failing teaches you the lessons that you need to learn on your way to your goals. The most successful people understand this.

They have internalized the lessons of their own failures. They have used these lessons to get where they are today.

Real success isn’t a game. It’s not a reality show.

It doesn’t fall upon the shoulders of the chosen few.

Real success comes from failing, often more than once. It’s in these moments of failure that you learn how to avoid future mistakes.

And in time reach your goals.

JohnK 12-12-2022

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Overheard: “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

~John F. Kennedy

Why We Don’t Like to Take Chances

May 2, 2022 John Uncategorized No comments

You want to take more chances in your life, but you keep holding back. GenuLines reminds you that this is learned.

And today we’ll help you re-write that lesson

Why We Don’t Like to Take Chances

We’re taught from a very early stage by our parents to be careful.

We’re told to look

both ways before crossing the street and not to eat what is unfamiliar.

Parents want their kids to live long healthy lives. So they teach them to be cautious about most everything.

It was the same for their parents and so on down the line.

What’s It All About?

It’s all about self-preservation and keeping the family going generation after generation. But there are other reasons that we don’t like to take chances.

Societies have rules that its citizens must follow. Failure to do this can lead to jail time.

Even if what we do is legal our need to follow rules can take over. This tends to add to our cautious state of being.

Crowd Control

We hesitate to take chances because these rules are such a part of our lives. We also tend to follow the crowd and there are studies to back this up.

This is a herd mentality.

Say you’re on a busy city street and you look up in the sky for a long period of time. You’ll find more and more people gathering around to see exactly what you’re looking at.

There may be nothing of importance up there. But folks want to know what the attraction is.

So It Is With Taking Chances

If no one else has done it before we’re not likely to take the plunge. As mentioned earlier, we want to see others experience something.

Then we’ll decide whether to go for it ourselves.

This is why we look to product reviews and forums before making purchases online. We want to know that others used products or services without problems.

Go Around The Block

These reasons that we don’t like to take chances are mental blocks. They put up a proverbial stop sign anytime we encounter something that doesn’t sit well with us.

This leads us to create excuses not to do something. The biggest problem is that these barriers took a lifetime to build up so breaking them down is never easy.

We first have to have the belief that we can break them down before we allow ourselves to do so.

JohnK 5-2-2022

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Overheard: “May you always have courage to take a chance”