Whether it is weight loss, exercise, work, family or relationships, it is very easy to sometimes feel like you will never reach the success you aspire too, and so today I want to tell you about a few famous failures… People who defied the odds, made their own “luck,” and became fantastically successful.
This should inject some inspiration into your day…
Cut from the high school basketball team. He went home, locked himself in his room and cried…
Michael Jordan
Told by a teacher he was “too stupid to learn anything…”
Thomas Edison
His fiancé died, he failed in business twice, suffered a nervous breakdown and was defeated in eight elections…
Abraham Lincoln
His music teacher commented, “as a composer, he is hopeless…”
Ludwig van Beethoven
His parents thought he was mentally retarded. His teacher told him “You will never amount to anything…”
Albert Einstein
Turned down for an engineer’s job at Toyota and unemployed, he built and sold scooters to neighbours to make ends meet…
Soichiro Honda
He was a failure in school, and suffered from a speech impediment…
Winston Churchill
What you can learn from this is quite obvious – personally and professional – it is YOU who makes your own luck and your own success… Circumstance or luck are excuses.
Whatever you want from life (and from health), go get it.
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Winston Churchill