Do you sometimes try something new and expect to be successful the first time?  Do you berate yourself if you aren’t?  

         If you expect to get it right the first time, how did you ever learn to walk?

      When a baby is learning to walk it is one of the few times that failure is tolerated and not seen as an absolute predictor of the future.  When a baby falls, the loving parent encourages her, "That’s OK.  Try again."  Can you imagine if after a couple of falls the parent picked up the baby and said, 'Well, I guess you’ll never be any good at walking.'  And didn't let the child continue to try?

   Failure is a learning process

          Remember the first time you took the training wheels off your bike?  I do.  I ended up smashing into a brick wall and had scrapes and gashes all over my body.  But I went back out and tried again.  Didn't you?

        When I was a kid, my dad told me, “You know, I invented 4 UP but it wasn't very good, I went back to the lab and came up with 5 UP and still, it wasn't right.  Finally I tried 6 UP, but it didn't sell.  So I stopped,  How was I to know 7UP would be the hit!”  He told me he  invented WD-39, and Preparation G.  Time after time, he said, he gave up too soon.  He told me, "Why if I had just tried one more formula, I could have been a rich man."

          Thomas Edison failed over a thousand times before he found the one filament material that would make an electric light bulb shine. 

          His attitude? "I haven't even failed once; 1,000 times I've learned what doesn't work."

       Whenever we try something new, we are bound to need practice.  No matter how well we plan, there are times unexpected problems develop. 

      Failure really is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try.

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