Bankersadda is visited by thousands of people daily, who have taken up a challenge upon themselves to get into a government job for their dreams. During this struggle, phases come when one has to face failure & criticism and life seems to be so tough. We understand the pains of such failures and would like to stand with our readers in such phases. One has to understand that success is never ending and failure is never final.
In-fact, failure is the highway to success. There a famous quote "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." If you study history, you will find that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. But people don't see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: "He must have been at the right place at the right time."
Let
us share a story with you. This was a man who failed in business at the
age of 21; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again
in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26;
had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34;
lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become
vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was
elected president of the United States at age 52.This man was Abraham Lincoln. Would you call him a failure? He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.
A New York Times editorial on December 10, 1903, questioned the wisdom of the Wright Brothers who were trying to invent a machine, heavier than air, that would fly. One week later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their famous flight.
"Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is" - Vince Lombardi
One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling and he was partially deaf.
Do
you consider these people failures? They succeeded in spite of
problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it
appears as though they just got lucky.All success stories are stories of great failures. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and keep moving.
You miss 100% of the shots, you don't take - Wayne Gretzky.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined. Life if waiting for you. Happy New Year 2014.
