Doug Dennis
To Know Success, Fail First
I saw this commercial for the first time this week and was inspired by the message and how much it resonated with my own personal experiences. Falling down is something that we all do and have done since birth. In fact, just watch a 2-year old and how many times he falls down while mastering the walk. Yet, once mastered after countless falls, it’s something that literally lasts a life-time.
Oh that we would all have the vision to know what failures would endure if we just keep at them until success is ours and how long that success would endure.
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Positive Energy Is a Chain Reaction
Gordon Dean was a distinguished American lawyer and prosecutor. One of a original members of the Atomic Energy Commission, he became its chairman from 1950 to 1953. It’s said that when Dean died in a plane crash in 1958, among his personal effect was an envelope with nine life lessons scribbled on the back. These lessons aren’t about the law or about atomic energy. They’re wisdom about his philosophy of life:
1. Never lose your capacity of enthusiasm.
2. Never lose your capacity of indignation.
3. Never judge people – don’t type them too quickly. But in a pinch never first assume that a man is bad; first assume that he is good and that, at worst, he is in the gray area between bad and good.
4. Never be impressed by wealth alone or thrown by poverty.
5. If you can’t be generous when it’s hard to be, you won’t be when it’s easy.
6. The greatest builder of confidence is the ability to do something – almost anything – well.
7. When confidence comes, then strive for humility; you aren’t as good as all that.
8. The way to become truly useful is to seek the best that other brains have to offer. Use them to supplement your own, and be prepared to give credit to them when they have helped.
9. The greatest tragedies in the word and personal events stem from misunderstandings. So communicate!
We are all students of life. Want to get to the head of the class? Pay attention and take notes.
via Blog – Harvey Mackay Official Website | Bestselling Author of Swim with the Sharks.
