Failure. It's something that everyone is scared of. It's a word that can be used to garner sympathy from others, and in some cases scorn. People see failure as a bad thing. In reality, failure is one of the best ways to learn how to be successful. That is provided you are able to learn from those mistakes. We as people learn from birth how to fail and fail and fail till we are successful. Walking is the perfect example of that. How many times did YOU fail at walking till you got it right? I don't think anyone has the answer to that question, but it's a great example.
I recently just failed in building a business. Some people have told me "You didn't fail, you learned so much." But I did fail. And i'm ok with that. Yes, I did learn alot in trying to get my business up and running, but I also did fail at it. Failure is not a bad word, and this situation is not an exception. Things didn't go as we had planned them, but as long as I take the lessons that I learned from this business to heart, I will eventually be successful. It might not be my next business, but it will happen. I'm too stubborn for it not to happen.
So the next time someone accuses you of having failed at something. Stand up and yell "Yes, I did fail." with gusto. Thomas Edison failed thousands of times in trying to create the lightbulb. His response? "I learned thousands of ways that it didn't work." You need to learn the thousands of ways that things dont work for you. Eventually, you will find that one way that will work.
If you are not failing at something, then you are sitting on your butt and not doing anything. It's that simple.