Why Failure is a Blessing and Why it Flirts With Success
Another Publication on Leveraging Failure
Why does failure flirt with success?
Failure leads up to success and it builds up the confidence and the skills to stray from making mistakes.
How many times have you failed in life?
Me myself, I honestly have no idea. Is something a failure when you reiterated and took a different approach instead?
My main issue with the idea of failure is that there are two different types of people.
And it outlines the patience game.
The truth is, people are bad at judging the amount of time things take.
You have one person who lives through others success and loses motivation after not seeing profit after a week and a half in business…
And the other person is successful because a week and a half is seconds in the game of entrepreneurship.
I just started another agency on top of my other agency and I made a sale in 1/12 of the time it took for my main business.
Let’s just say a 6 month difference.
In retrospect, I received a $500/pm retainer the first week into starting my email marketing agency, MailerMomentum.
My first agency took about 6 months to even flirt with the idea of a client.
At times I felt like I was failing. It hurt a lot.
But I honestly believe it would be the same scenario if I would’ve started MailerMomentum first.
Because the main thing I took away from my first business was:
The skills
The industry knowledge
The persuasion
I’ve also done it differently in the fact that I am still running this business and I learn more everyday.
So test out, keep going, and create new ideas if you have too.
Why Do Successful Entrepreneurs Romanticize Failure?
I was just talking to my friend about the stress of getting started in business and the important lessons I have from starting so many times — I generally don’t think anything could stop me after that time in my life. (And honestly, to people that are much older than me, when I say “so many times,” it’s really been about the span of a year and a half).
I never thought life was hard, I’d always been optimistic, but the startup part was hard, and it probably contains that most essential lessons of my life so far.
I easily could’ve quit during the startup faze.
But I find myself rather fortunate — listening to other entrepreneurs that have taken years to get a little bit of success coupled with 100x the uncertainty.
Effort is the only channel to follow the success path with.
So maybe failure has lost its definition.
Because I can guarantee that those who spend the majority of their time working on their business and building towards the future will out-succeed those who work part time.
But business is weird, and here’s why:
If you actually keep going, you don’t see the progress overtime. One day you just look back and come to conclusion how far you’ve come and improved.
Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like you’ve improved, but it all depends on where your starting point is.
For many succesful people, they always feel like they’re just starting.
How can I leverage failure in business for success?
The first thing to do is to understand what it means to you to succeed.
I have a goal setting process where you essentially pick a long timeframe correlated with a a milestone like your age, and break it down by a month to month basis.
Now, you understand the prerequisite unto what it takes to succeed.
Before you figure out what you need to do to capitalize, you need to map out all the ways you could possibly fail.
This is important!
Write them down one time, you don’t need to memorize them.
Just be aware.
Understand how you succeed, fulfill, and understand that the moment you master the startup process, the middle is easy, and the level after that is easier.
Now, are you scared of failiure?
Or are you excited for the lessons that are yet to be learned?
Thank you for reading.
Come back next Friday where I talk about how journaling has always saved me on the edge of insanity and huge bottlenecks in my business.