Have you failed at IM? Good.

That's true E. Brian Rose.

Thanks for that.

And soon I want to succeed enough to be featured on one of your webinars.

I'd never be the grown up you see here today if I hadn't fallen flat on my face as many times that I have. In fact, I think it actually helped build my character and made me really treasure any successes I've had because I can appreciate them a whole lot more. Good OP.

Here are a couple of quotes that I have on my white wall:

RoD


"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan

"Failure is often the path way to success." -Anonymous

I'm tearing up just like that time you ate that onion.

I'm tired of failing lol

Agreed. Failing is just another form of testing unless you think you'll never be given another basket full of eggs to drop.

The reality is, in life you can't get from point "A" to point "B" without stepping in fresh egg yokes and tripping over baskets that are lying around waiting to be picked up.

You say you dropped your basket?

Well then, look for another one and pick it up.

~Bill

Failure? That's a compliment!

Most people don't actually fail because they spend a lot of time reading, watching videos etc. but very little doing the actual work...

Spot on dude.

We have to learn to fail faster so we can get to the wins

This guy has popped up so much since that video was first presented. Always an inspiration to watch!

Thankyou for sharing.


Mannequin

Nope, I have never failed at IM.

To fail you have to admit defeat.

Just because you attempt to cross the pond on stepping stones and fall in during
the process doesn't make you a failure. You just swim across and learn from your
mistakes.

To fail you have to quit.

Remove the words fail, failed and failure from your vocabulary and replace them with
things such as, well that didn't work like I planned it, Lesson learned, won't make that
mistake again and you'll see a difference in what you can really do in the future.

Let me ask you this, If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you actually done?

Have a Great Day!
Michael

Inspring that guy should be what we look to when we thinking about 'giving up'.

Failing only means it's something worth chasing after. Failing is a chance we take in order to get where we want to be. If it wasn't worth that "chance" of failing... it wouldn't be worth achieving.

My point is... if it is worth achieving, it is worth a failing attempt... but not giving up. It's just a stepping stone.

Thanks for sharing E Brian Rose...but you owe me a new tissue now.

Great post!

I make money online, but I fail every single day.

It's how you get back up that matters, not how you fall down.

Failure can't exist without your permission.

I am just inspired from this post...I remember the day's when I failing no matter what I try...but I never give up and now I am making the money that I always dreamed of...

Yes i also see the thread i think yesterday.My opinion about it, actually he is not the only here who are not earning.Or maybe its just he is trying to earn high which is not in the right timing.

That video is a real tear-jerker... Thanks for sharing with us.

I've seen that video on this forum before, but again, it's a touching video
for sure. There will always be people out there that "have it worse" than you.

I forgot all about that guy. Thanks for the reminder to, "be thankful for what you have". It seems I need a reminder often with my short memory.

The sad part, E. Brian, is that many of these folks quit too early because of these "so called failures." Several years ago I was watching a documentary that chronicled the journey of some explorers that stumbled upon another explorers skeleton with treasure in his bony hand, 12 feet from the exit of the caves....

They said, if he would have gone a few more steps and turned to his left he would have seen his way out.

I remembered that story as I read your post and I think it parallels nicely with the kind of person I'm talking about. They work hard for awhile, don't see any success so they become tired and they quit. Ironically, they do so with the possibility that they could be just 2 months or 2 days from breaking through their barriers, becoming successful and enjoying a new life.

I'm sure that most of you have heard the story of Colonel Sanders but I think it is worth repeating here. Here is Tony Robbins version from his book "Letters to a Friend."

"How did Colonel Sanders become such an unbelievable success? Was it because he was born wealthy? Was his family rich? Did they send him to a top university like Harvard? Maybe he was successful because he started his business when he was really young. Are any of these true?

The answer is no. Colonel Sanders didn't begin to fulfill his dream until he was 65 years old! What drove him to finally take action? He was broke and alone. He got his first social security check for $105, and he got mad but instead of blaming society or just writing congress a nasty note, he started asking himself, "What could I do that would be valuable for other people? What could I give back?" He started thinking about what he had that was valuable to others.

His first answer was, "Well, I have this chicken, recipe, everyone seems to love! What if I sold my chicken recipe to restaurants? Could I make money doing that?" Then he immediately thought, "That's ridiculous. Selling my recipe won't even pay the rent." And he got a new idea: "What if I not only sold them my recipe but also showed them how to cook the chicken properly? What if the chicken was so good that it increased their business? If more people come to see them and they make more chicken sales, maybe they will give me a percentage of those additional sales."
Many people have great ideas. But Colonel Sander was different. He was a man who didn't just think of great things to do. He put them into action. He went and started knocking on doors, telling each restaurant owner his story: "I have a great chicken recipe, and I think if you use it, it'll increase your sales. And I'd like to get a percentage of that increase."

Well, many people laughed in his face. They said, "Look, old man, get out of here. What are you wearing that stupid white suit for?" Did Colonel Sanders give up? Absolutely not. He had the #1 key to success; I call it personal power. Personal power means being persistence in taking action: Every time you do something, you learn from it, and you find a way to do it better next time. Colonel Sanders certainly used his personal power! Instead of feeling bad about the last restaurant that had rejected his idea, he immediately start focusing on how to tell his story more effectively and get better results from the next restaurant.

How many times do you think Colonel Sanders heard no before getting the answer he wanted? He was refused 1,009 times before he heard his first yes. His spent two years driving across America in his old, beat-up car, sleeping in the back seat in his rumpled white suit, getting up each day eager to share his idea with someone new. Often, the only food he had was a quick bite of the samples he was preparing for perspective buyers. How many people do you think would have gone for 1,009 no's - two years of no's! - and kept on going? Very few. That's why there is only one Colonel Sanders. I think most people wouldn't get passed twenty no's, much less a hundred or a thousand! Yet this is sometimes what it takes to succeed.
If you look at any of the most successful people in history, you will found this common thread: They would not be denied. They would not accept no. They would not allow anything to stop them from making their vision, their goal, a reality."

To those who have endured several challenges in your quest to become successful in internet marketing but have not been able to break through yet. Realize one thing, and that is that you are not alone. I can't speak specifically for E. Brian but I can tell you that many, many successful Warriors that you see on the Warrior Forum every day could have quit too and some of them may have wanted to quit, but you know what, they didn't. I could of given up and alot of folks including my family and friends told me to give up but I had nothing else and I refused to give up on my dream. When you have a big enough "want to" you'll find a way to succeed and you won't give up.

I have seen one of his videos before...very inspiring indeed...thank you for reminding us...compared to this guy many of us become like cry babies

This guy in the video should help most of us understand that it is all about how we look at things. We may fail right now but if we take that experience to learn, then we ought to be making progress.

I thank you for the video that you embed here.

For some reason it makes my cheek wet.

No such thing as failure, only feedback - If something didn't work, you just found out 1 more way how not to do it

Wow - wasn't expecting that when I watched the viedo - thanks for posting, brought a few tears to my eyes!!

In life I constantly fail and pick myself up and try again, I am a determined person but for some reason haven't mastered trying hard again for IM. I'm hoping to change that now and want to keep trying (and failing) at being a success online.

I am going to share the video with my friends and family - it is so inspirational.

Thank again.

This is true, It happened to me.. fell flat on my face as described, made no money after months of finding a way on making money, I had a website adsense everything, came back and now I am getting ready to receive my cheque!

You know...me reading this post and watching the video..it really was a surprise how timely this "message" came to me...you see, just a couple of hours ago, I had just posted on WF a thread, that stated my intention to make a comeback to IM despite having failed for 2 years (2008-2010).

This is probably all the encouragement I'll ever need.

Thanks mate!

I just started reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (I know, I know, I'm behind the times heh) Anyway, there are some really great quotes about failure and mindset in there. If you lament that you fail, then guess what? Yup, you fail. Persistence and the inherent conviction that you will succeed are the key to making money. Your product could be complete pants, but if you believe it will succeed, then it will!

You can fail many times but you only have to succeed once to make changes in your life. Its like being scared to ask girls out at a bar you ask 100 girls out you only have to get 1 yes and your better off than the guy who never asks.
Just try, try & try again.

Cheers,
Rob.m

I've been doing this on the side for two years (with a full time job) and still don't have much to show for it. I'm failing a helluvalot. Oddly enough, I am still excited to fail more. I'm messed up, lol.

I remember seeing somebody write that nobody fails at Internet Marketing, they just quit before they succeed. Always found that a quote to work by.

This was a nice post. I’ve failed many times trying to do many unreal things to promote my work online, without having the right knowledge.

Now, I feel I’m an expert on internet marketing (while this is not exactly true…) only because of all the adventures I had.

My list of failures certainly helped me learn many things.

Thanks for this inspirational video

Really like this quote.

Cheers,

~Gary

I have tried and failed a lot times but i am gaining success step by step now.Failure is nothing to afraid.All we need is perseverance.

Great Video. It really shows what it takes to succeed in IM. Sometimes you think there is no way but you have to keep going.

Too true.

Nick Vujicic is such a great example of overcoming obstacles.

I can't get anywhere near imagining how difficult it must be to put myself in his shoes, but I do connect with his fighting spirit.

It's amazing how someone like him can make you think to yourself, "I want to be more like him."

I know the walls of difficulty for me in both life and business have sometimes hit me right in the face, but when looking at obstacles as teachers rather than the opposition, it can help you have a completely different perspective on failure.

Of course, we don't want to keep repeating the same mistakes, as that would be insane, but realizing that walls can be ladders is a great realization.

Thanks for the post, and the good reminder.

Peter

Many people have read so much information on forums and in ebooks that they can't even see the evidence right in front of them. Even after getting some small results they fail to do more of those actions that produced them. The 'forum voices' in their head have now become stronger than their own, logical, rational and successful inner voice. Everyone needs to stop reading and do more of whats working right in front of them.

Failure is the ugly stepbrother of success... can't take away one from the other...

This is one of those things that makes you think about the things that matter. Thank you for making us take time out of our day for what matters most.
God Bless.

The catch is not to give up even if you did't reach the desired results in a planned time when trying to make money in IM.

Something that stuck with me which I heard the other day was that you miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. There are so many ways to make money online and I'm just happy I stuck with it.

IMHO, IM takes time like anything.

You might face failures ( not necessarily ), but those failures for sure pave a way to success