Volume II Part 11

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"Bring Out The Greatness Within You"

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
—Havelock Ellis—

Failing

Do you like to fail? I would guarantee the answer to that question is a definite no. Did you know that failure is an important ingredient toward one’s success? That’s right! As long as you learn from the mistakes and use them to build upon, failure is common to all successful people—in fact it’s expected!

So why does everyone fear failure? Because it’s embarrasing for anyone to fail, and people see it as a huge negative vibe (The Million Dollar Athlete Vol. II Part 2) You can’t worry about making mistakes just use it to build on and expect them.

My belief is that if you can’t trust yourself no one else will be able to trust you either. Believing starts with you. One of baseball’s greatest quotations was started by NY Mets pitcher Tug McGraw back in 1973, “you gotta believe.” Although the Mets lost to the Oakland A’s that year in game 7, it’s one of the most noted quotes in baseball and it rallied a team to win a pennant and almost a world series.

If the NY Met players didn’t believe in themselves first, they couldn’t believe or trust each other. Have you ever found yourself trying to do another teammates job as well as your own? As an athlete, you know this is a recipe for disaster in sports. Your teammate couldn’t get the job done because he/she didn’t have trust in themselves first so you had no trust in that person either.

A Big Loser?

There are many other successful people that have had many failures. I’ve listed ten failures for this person—can you guess who it is? The answer will be at the end of the blog.

• Failed in business at age 21
• Defeated in legislative race at age 22
• Failed again in business at age 24
• Overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26
• Nervous breakdown at age 27
• Lost a congressional race at age 36
• Lost a senatorial race at age 45
• Failed to become vice-president at age 47
• Lost a senatorial race at age 49
• Elected President of the United States at age 52

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Answer to question: Abraham Lincoln

Tony Falco
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