Success comes to those who prepare for it. I am a firm believer that if you truly want something, and are willing to work hard to get it, then you will eventually realize your goals.

So how exactly do you prepare for success? Well, this may sound a bit strange, but I believe that to prepare for success, you must prepare for failure. Yup, prepare to fail!

To succeed, you must first realize that you will fail at something. Long ago, I’ve accepted the fact that failure is inevitable; it is unavoidable.

To determine what it means to fail, I suggest establishing clear goals at the beginning of a project. These goals should be incremental (one month, three months, 6 months, one year) and will allow you to track your project’s progress. If after 6 months you still have not achieved what you set out to do in the first month, then obviously it’s time to reconsider your project. Of course, all of this is dependent on you establishing reachable goals, not some lofty dream of success.

Another thing you can do is to develop a tolerance for failure. It’s almost like developing a tolerance for alcohol, the more you drink, the more you can hold… haha (just kidding). Really though, tolerating a failure involves recognizing the benefits you can gain from failing. You shouldn’t view failure as the end of a particular project. Rather use it as an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and avoid making them again.

It’s simple: Failure provides you with the opportunity to succeed. That’s my motto.

Personally, I have failed several times in my attempts to make money online. I’ve started blogs, forums, wikis and e-commerce sites that have done nothing but consume my precious time. Yet despite these failures, I still continue to start new projects and test my ideas. If I gave up long ago, One Greek Store and Pro Money Blog would have never existed.

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7 Responses

  1. Business Twins

    July 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 pm

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    The best thing for people to learn is how to fail. Once you feel what failure is, you find out what you don’t want. Then next time you try even harder to succeed.

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    July 23rd, 2007 at 8:53 am

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  3. SavingDiva

    July 23rd, 2007 at 11:13 am

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    What are some of the other ventures that didn’t work out?

    Your post is very motivational. I think everyone has failed at some point in their life. It’s great to see someone that fell, brushed themselves off, and continues on their way. Good luck!

  4. Sam Breadstone

    July 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm

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    If you have never failed before you will not know what succeeding is!

  5. Deron Sizemore

    July 23rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm

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    Great read! As corny as it sounds, the quote from the movie Batman Begins says it well…”Why do we fail? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”

    As you said, failure is inevitable, it’s how you respond to it.

  6. mahdi yusuf

    July 24th, 2007 at 12:40 am

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    hey how did you get such a slick subscribe button on the bottom of the post? :D

  7. sfordinarygirl

    July 24th, 2007 at 2:38 am

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    i love reading the personal development posts, this one in particular.

    I keep thinking I haven’t failed enough to really get a good feel for what it is I want to succeed at. But I feel like I’m in a good position - I’m motivated to keep up the freelancing to other publications so far I’m at 0 for 3 - 3 letters sent with no responses. But I’m still writing other pitches and I know after 10, one has bound to be successful.

    This is a long comment but when I was asked to resign from my first journalism job after a few months because I wasn’t a good writer, I viewed that for a year clearly that I failed and could never succeed again. I’ve spent the last year changing the way I think and focusing on things I can do to learn and improve my writing while investing in other areas of interest. Thanks for the inspiration! It’s always a good reminder even though I should know better.


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