Vol.14 No.2

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Failure . . . The SECRET to
Success! Failure is the SECRET to
your Success! Don't believe me? Have
you ever seen a baby stand up for the
first time and take off walking across the
room? HECK NO!!!
That baby falls on his butt hundreds
of times before he even gets enough
balance mustered up to take a couple of
wobbly . . . TODDLING steps. Thus the
name . . . Toddler.
In fact, you may not know this but we
don't put padded diapers on babies
because they aren't potty trained, we put
PADDED diapers on babies because they
FALL on their butt so much.
But nobody has ever . . . EVER watched
a 2 year old fall on his butt and think to
himself, "what a loser, this kid will never
amount to anything."
When you are two, falling on your butt
is the price that you pay to learn how to
walk . . .
OR in other words FAILURE is the
price of SUCCESS. But somewhere along
about, I don't know 16 to 20 something,
people start to get this idea in their head
that if they fail at something . . .
They are a loser or It just isn't meant to
be or I will never amount to anything or I
guess I'm just not good enough or No one
will love me if they see me fail or I guess
it's not GOD'S will. (Yea, I'm pretty sure
that God just loooooves being used as an
excuse for our lack of development)
Whatever. . . . you get the idea.
Here's the deal . . . It doesn't matter if you
are 9 months old learning how to crawl
or 65 years old learning how to play the
drums for the first time or a middle aged
woman trying to stick to a diet so that
you can lose some weight. If you
ultimately want to succeed then you
must . . . let me repeat . . . YOU MUST. Fail
until you don't. Keep trying. Be
persistent. Don't let a natural little set
back turn into the universe being against
you. Failure is a normal, natural part of
learning ANYTHING. The only people
who don't fail at stuff are boring people
who are not growing as human beings
because they don't even TRY stuff.
So I say, if you wanna be GREAT. . . Fail . .
. Fail often . . .Fail fast . . . Regroup . . . Fail
again. One day, it absolutely does NOT
matter what we are talking about here . .
but one day you WILL get back up . . .
AND actually walk across that room
without falling, without even a wobble
and God will smile down on you and say,
I always knew you could do it. And at
that moment, you will acquire a
confidence that you did not have before
and the only way to acquire THAT
confidence is by swimming through that
big, dark, scary pool of failure to get to
your "SUCCESS
Whatever that might be for you.
Losing 10 pounds. Losing 100 pounds.
Running a marathon or 5K. Getting your
black belt in some martial art. Finishing
college. Finishing high school. Playing a
musical instrument. Becoming a good
SPOUSE. Becoming a GREAT parent.
It doesn't matter what it is. YOU.
MUST. PAY. THE. PRICE. PERIOD
EXCLAMATION POINT!
You might as well expect it and figure
it into the equation so it doesn't keep
you from success and an ABUNDANT
LIFE.
And Do NOT make a mistake about
this . . . an ABUNDANT LIFE is exactly
what is at stake here.
The SECRET to YOUR Success . . . IS
failure! With Love, Dr. Tim Onge
574 Highway 248, STE. 4
Branson, MO 65616
417.598.0080
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