THE OPPOSITE OF 'SUCCESS' IS NOT 'FAILURE'

'Failure' is not the opposite of 'Success'

Remember 'Words and Opposite' in English classes when men were kids and those gorgeous ladies around were but lil' girls? Yeah...not sure it was a favourite for me back in the days even though I inevitably grew to learn the antonyms of words. However, I can confidently inform you that, contrary to widespread insinuations, 'Failure' is NOT the opposite of 'success'.
If you go about thinking you need to stay away from Failure to succeed, then think again. This exact way of thinking is what has robbed countless potential entrepreneurs of the joy and fulfillment that would have accompany their-now aborted- dreams and visions.

It's more of a conundrum: You have to NOT fail to succeed, yet you cannot succeed UNLESS you fail. Many will think it a vexing conundrum even, yet to have any chance of sustained and progressive success, you must mature to the point when you no longer live by the fear and dread of failure.

Mind you, the idea is not to make you a comfortable failure instead, or add a viable point to your over-used reasons for continuously failing at the things you do. Rather, it is to engrave upon your heart and imprint deep into your consciousness the golden fact that Failure carries with it keys and secret recipes to Success. Your mission is to disect how, why and where you failed and LEARN how, why and where NOT to fail. This knowledge will become invaluable in your drive to become successful. Moan, blame yourself or others and you lose the lesson and the knowledge inherent in the failure necessary to aid your success pursuits.
'So, how is Mr. Nika Burga so sure he's correct?' You seems to ask me.

Simple. The greatest successes are also the greatest failures. Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Walt Disney and on and on and on...
Plus, if you ask any successful man about Failure, he certainly will be quick, and firm, to inform you that he wouldn't have become as successful as he now has were it not for the lessons learnt in the times of failures.

Note that success does not lie in failure; it lies in the effective and efficient use of the lessons learnt from failures. If you fail, learn nothing useful to propel your success drive or you choose not to apply the lessons learnt, you will fail over and over and each time get farther away from Success. Failure may not be the opposite of Success, but it isn't- by itself- Success' best friend either. Again, it is in the application of the positive lessons learnt in failures that successes are born.

Now, you have a choice to view challenges and failures in a different, more useful, light that will flame your passion to succeed and actually help you become successful. The vital question remains: Will you take the choice?

Good Reads?
Giving Up on Giving Up
Bill Gates Was Once a Failure
Too Determined to Lose
Failures of Famous Entrepreneurs