FAILURE is an ASSET

The other night, I was invited to a very high-level entrepreneur dinner. It was amazing. People that had sold their companies to Goldman Sachs, NASA, people that worked with Tiger Woods, an amazing group of people. And what was so wonderful was the conversation. And it wasn't the conversation just about, "Oh, I did this much in business." There was no ego in all of this. 

We were actually talking about how failure was a gift. Every wrong thing that they ended up going down a path of "wrong." Getting fired or losing something or whatever the failure is that was really really huge, it put them on a new trajectory. A trajectory that they never even could have conceived of beforehand if they had never had that failure, to begin with. 

And I just remember my story when I applied to be a hostess at a restaurant. I was so happy to go ahead and get this job when I was 19 years old. And they wouldn't hire me and I was so mad and I had no idea why they wouldn't hire me because I was really great and I would've made a great hostess. And if I was a hostess, I wonder where I would be right now because I ended up getting a job in tech. I got a tech support job making about $14 an hour back when I was 19 years old but it let to a network operations position which led to my next job, which led to my next job which really took off. 

If I was a hostess, I probably would've been really really good at it, don't get me wrong, but what would I have actually become? Maybe a restaurant manager? Who knows? But what's insane is that what I thought and what felt so crappy at the time because I wasn't good enough, led me on a completely different trajectory. So just know wherever you are right now, even if you feel like it's not going in the right trajectory, maybe it's because you have a brand new one about to pop on the stage that you'll be even happier within the end! Have an amazing day!

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FAILURE is an ASSET

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Why your failure can be a positive and can open new doors of opportunities you wouldn't have otherwise seen. Share your gift of failures in the comments below.

Tags: business failure, Entrepreneur, Failure, success after failure

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