“Fall Seven times, Stand up Eight,”
Success is 99% Failure...
When I first walked, I fell
When I spoke I stuttered
When I wrote a d it looked like b
When I wrote a b it looked like a d
When I sprinted I puked
When I rode a bike I crashed
When I played football I fumbled
When I was a student I failed more classes than I passed
My first three girlfriends either dumped me or were nuts
When I ran for political office I lost – Thank God!
When I started a dot com in 1997, I worked 90 hours a week for two years and never made a dollar
When I drove a truck, I dumped 2,000 gallons of paint (by accident) in a parking lot and created an environmental hazard (we cleaned it up)
When I first drove, I totaled 4 cars
When I first used Windows 95, I trashed the entire file system
When I first administered data I deleted an entire customer database without a backup – and I lived to talk about it.
That’s just a few of my failures. Believe me, I have a lot more. My failures used to haunt me. They used to inhibit me from trying again.
But today I believe…
The day you quit trying and concede to your demons is the day your soul dies.
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