Final Defeat

High-angle Photography of People in Ground
Pixel/sL Wong

We all have experienced terrible loses in life. It is a part of our lives. If you haven’t experienced one, it is either you are not trying hard enough, or you are just playing it too safe.

When you are planning or cultivating your path to success, don’t just focus on the good side of it, you should also plan on how you are going to deal with adversity, obstacles, and frustrations. You are going to experience lots of them. They are there waiting for you to come. If you want success badly, you will go. It is not what happened to you that matters now. It is what you do with it after you have experienced it that matters. Are you going to quit, or are you going to stick with it until you succeed?

When you are planning or cultivating your path to success, don’t just focus on the good side of it, you should also plan on how you are going to deal with adversity, obstacles, and frustrations.”

Success and failure are on the same street. You cannot separate them. If you want to succeed, you must be ready to fail. It is after you have failed, then you learn how to succeed. First failure is not failure, it is experimenting time. If you fail the first time, don’t quit. Stick with it, learn it, and start again. People fail because they take the first misstep as the final failure. Don’t do that. It is not your last chance. It is your first chance. It is not your last shot at success. Try again. People fail because they can’t move past the first misstep.

If you want to succeed, you must be ready and willing to move past the first misstep. If you do, you will succeed.

2 Things To Conquer

Orange and Blue Abstract Painting
Pixel/Steve Johnson

You have two things to conquer: 1) the world. 2) Yourself.

To conquer the world, you must first conquer yourself. If you can successfully conquer yourself, you have won the biggest battle of all. Buddha said, “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you.” Then you can conquer the world. You can conquer the world, you can understand the world only if you conquer yourself, only if you understand yourself. If you know who you are, you can know others. If you don’t know who you are, you cannot know other people. Know yourself to know others. Conquer yourself to conquer the world.

You can.