The list of successful failures would include the following: Bill Gates, Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Edison, Frank Winfield Woolworth, Michael Jordan, Walter Disney, Winston Churchill, Steven Spielberg, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, John Grisham, Henry Ford, Soichiro Honda, and Akio Morita (see a more detailed description here).
Each one of these would have come to their fair share of dead-ends and then had to back up and decide how to make it successfully to their goal. That brings us to this week’s quote…
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. ~ Zig Ziglar
How would history be different without these individuals continuing to pursue their goals? Some accomplished more than one goal and probably had many dead-ends. Their labyrinth of achieving their goals were possibly paved with many dead-ends. However, no matter how many dead-ends they experienced, the ended up making it to their goals.
Obstacles are high, wide, or deep opportunities in disguise. How we deal with those obstacles will determine the outcome of the opportunities.
Do not let your goals be dead-ends, but rather turn around, try again and again until you reach the end of the labyrinth.
