Don’t Let Failure Turn In To Excess Baggage
Fact is everyone fails. Michael Jordon was cut from his high school basketball team, Steven Speilberg dropped out of high school and Babe Ruth, as well as being the home run hitter was also the strike out king.
When we fail it’s critical that we view it as a learning experience. It’s totally natural to feel disbelief, fear and anger. But eventually acceptance will take over and we deal with the despair we are feeling. All of the people above and everyone you know has gone through the struggle of failure but they also took a lesson and grew from the experience.
In a sales call that doesn’t go well take time to run the call in your head. Analyze the failure. It takes a lot of courage to take responsibility for what went wrong. Did you ask all the in depth qualifying questions? Where you well planned? Did you miss a step in the selling process? What would you do differently next time?
Gaining professional stature in any career is not a flawless exercise. Whether it be a sports superstar, business tycoon or accomplished musician, people like Tiger Woods, Donald Trump and Eric Clapton struggled to get it right. If they had decided to quit they would be poorer for it and so would we.
To make a difference in your life and the lives around you it demands you try and fail, and fix it, and move on and try again.
We’re pulling for you.
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