In our book Ignite Success, my co-author Peter Loeffen, an expert in IT and telecommunication issues, and I write about starting up an IT business and how the same challenges and pitfalls will apply for any start-up business.
In fact, Ignite Success - my own book! - has been very helpful in starting up my ‘askbrianmartin.com’ web business.
In so many ways, the major difference between successful and unsuccessful people is... how they think. Successful people understand that they have to experiment and learn how not to do it. When it does not work, remember you have made a great discovery, you thought it would work and it does not.
I am frequently reminded as I think about the inventor of so many great things in our everyday lives. Mr Thomas Edison was being interviewed by an aggressive young journalist, who said, "you failed 9,999 times to make the light bulb." Mr Edison replied, "Young man, I did not fail, because I learned 9,999 ways how not to make a light bulb."
The biggest gap between unsuccessful people and successful people is how they think.
How do you know success, if you don’t know failure? It could be said that failure is part of success!
When successful people fail or fall over, they get right up and start over again. They do not give in, they have a thing called tenacity. The great businessman Henry Ford had amazing tenacity and he would not give in.
If you are learning, you are growing. I say, if you don’t make a mistake, you don’t make anything. Of course, do not keep making the same mistake.
I think tenacity is a trait of successful people. They do not lose sight of their aspiration or dream, do not lose sight of your dream, you can do it if you really want it badly enough.
I close this post with a quote from John Wooden, "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."