Failure Is Written In Ice
Sometimes it’s easy to fail, but accepting failure is never easy. Especially if you gave your heart and soul, expecting awesome results. Quite often we give up, or feel like giving up.
One person who knows what failure feels like is J K Rowling. Yet, she carried on regardless of numerous obstacles and disappointments. When she wrote the 1st Harry Potter book (which took about 7 years), I’m sure she was expecting success.
But what happened?
The 12 major players in the UK publishing world ALL rejected her manuscript!
She didn’t give up though and in 1997 Bloomsbury, a small publisher, decided to print her book. They weren’t taking too many chances and only offered a small advance of £2500
They also only printed limited copies.
I think we all know how that story ends.
This 12-time rejection became a major best-seller, movie etc, etc. J K Rowling went from living on welfare to become one of the richest women on earth.
What if she had given up?
I can write a book about highly successful people who failed many times before tasting success. People who experienced despair and even hopelessness, yet went from failure to failure until they succeeded.
If you want to experience success, you have to be willing to start again. With enthusiasm, excitement and without even thinking that you could fail.
Is it easy? Of course not! Is it worth it? You betcha!
So how do you bounce back from failure? Watch out for my next post, I’ll tell you a few ways I do it.
PS : I was still writing this post when I heard of the passing of Stephen Hawking.
Image from Flickr
What an extraordinary man with such a brilliant mind! And a true example of someone who never gave up though his body failed him. Even battling motor neurone disease from the age of 22 and being in a wheelchair, he just forged on.
Interesting to note, he was born on Galileo Galilei’s 300th death anniversary and died on Albert Einstein’s 139th birth anniversary. 14 March is also Science Education and Scientist Appreciation Day…
Where some see the tip of the iceberg (the success), others see all the hard work embodied in the iceberg underneath the waters. This part of the iceberg, in rain or shine, will allow that tip to grow and strengthen in any form of weather.
Great article! Love the insight and practical application behind it. God bless you!
Thank you, God bless :-)
Unfortunately many think success just happens and don't want to acknowledge the hard work that is part of it...