Don't go to battle unless you are ready for war!
Just because you lose a battle doesn't mean the war is over!
The third and final part of Doddsism 124, just because you lose a battle doesn't mean the war is over. So many times we want to give up at the first sign of failure. We get rejected once and assume the battle is over. We can learn some of the best lessons in failure. There are two things that I think about after something has happened or I have been rejected. The first thing I ask myself is "did I do something wrong, or is there a way I could have done something better". Sometimes we fail or are reject even when we do everything correctly. It could be something as simple as timing. The second thing I try to figure out is "what can learn from this event." When everything is going well we tend not to look for ways to improve. Sometimes it takes something bad to happen for us to make the adjustment that could eventually lead us to greater success. Like I have said in previous post, even the most powerful and successful people have failed or come up short. The thing about those people is that even though they lost a couple battles they never stopped fighting the war. Have you given up after a battle? Maybe it is time to go back to war!
Failure is a great teacher. The lessons can get a little rough but the important thing is that you never give up fighting your battle. When you work in sales one of the things they teach you is that every "no" takes you closer to a "yes." If you have never done sales before let me tell you, it can get really hard sometimes. You have times when every door you go to is a yes and other times where you can go days without hearing a yes. As a sales person those are the days that you really analyze your approach and try to evaluate what you are doing. The clarity you gain can often lead you to finding better ways and methods of doing your job, and when things do change you end up better than you were before. Every lost battle is an opportunity to learn and improve. That strength you gain from those battles will eventually make you strong enough to when the war. Don't give up, you can do it!
R. Dodds
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~Winston Churchill
No comments:
Post a Comment