success is for wimps
friday afternoon.
i was feeling ten kinds of terrible, sitting at my computer with a sinking stomach and a heavy heart.
wallowing.
i’d started the week with bucketloads of hope, and ended it in a trough of despair. it had been a week of no thank yous, not right for uss and we’re not looking for anyone at the moments. i’d tried harder than i ever thought possible, and got exactly nowhere.
well, that’s it, i thought. it’s hopeless. i’ll never work again and no one loves me and i’ll have no money and have to go and live in a cardboard box and drink methylated spirits.
then i looked up, and at that moment, my eye caught the quote i’d cut out from o magazine and stuck on my wall. it said:
the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that… [are you ready?]
successful people fail more.
January 26, 2008
Of course they do because they’re up for more in the first place. And they learn from those failures and get better next time round and are stronger from just accepting the failure as part and parcel of the job and not a big issue each time that has to be mulled over endlessly. It’s that mulling over that is destructive. If you put the energy spent being destructive into something creative, success will follow when you’re not even expecting it.
I spent my whole life trying to get this through to my mother and still failed and she died an unhappy, miserable person with no self esteem whatever. A cautionary tale.
The success of one’s future career is not determined by the first few moments. God, I set myself on fire the first day I worked in a laboratory and I ended up Producton Manager. I just learned very quickly that burners cause fires and moved on!
Keep pitching, keep creating and success will find you. You know you have talent and talent ALWAYS outs.
xx
January 28, 2008
Thank you Jas - I should print this out for my wall! :)
*hug*