Sticktoitivity! : Lessons learned

Walt Disney coined a special phrase for the perseverance and determination, he referred to it as sticktoitivity. I thought about this recently, because I came across 20 cards old business from previous business ventures and jobs I had been associated over the past quarter century. Those old business cards, certainly brought a museum full of memories and feelings. I had forgotten some of those works that shaped my vision, as I pushed forward and upward. As I look back on all these opportunities, with the benefit of perspective and age, the only advantage I have derived is my personal understanding of the concept of success and failure.

Most people are so petrified of failure that they themselves paralyzed in inaction. The Japanese have a fascinating way to see the success, ... "Fall seven times, standing eight." A wonderful tribute sticktoitivity! I framed this statement to my office because it provides a summary of mounting the most important ingredient for success. Perseverance and commitment.

The life we constantly test our level of commitment. As simple as it may seem, is an ingredient that separates winners from losers. The only skills that they acquire the winners, is an understanding that growth is only possible if you have the courage to change what you did, if not get the desired result. Sometimes success is learning to fall and recognizing that you learn from that fall to grow. And growth is what a fulfilling life is everything.

When I worked as a stockbroker, years ago I discovered that most successful traders I worked with often lost on 90% of their trades. Yet, despite this terrible win / loss percentage of their investments were incredibly profitable. Could it be that they knew something about the success that the rest of us only in words? The only comment I remember these superstars is not insisting that its what you do when you're right, but rather how little you lose when you are wrong. Imagine losing 90% of traffic and still being successful. This is a good example of sticktoitivity!

My best teachers were my failures. My mistakes have taught me that I was so petrified of failure that unfortunately has become my lack of focus. It is not lack experience is very different from experiencing success. My goal for years was not the failure to meet .... Although I argued in a different way!

The most important lesson I learned from colleagues happened is that the road to success is often a process of experimentation and testing. If someone is more successful than me, the only reason this is so because they have experienced how to achieve the objective that they want more often than I have. The reverse is also true that those who have not successfully been too afraid to experiment. My question is, where is formed in this equation? What have you done experiments withheld because of fear? How are you going to break the mold and reach your potential?

A good friend is a business that has worked diligently for more than five years. He knows that his company has the potential to increase sales tenfold. However, it also knows that he must break the mold probably that got him where is today, and create a different model. While many would envy his current success, try to imagine the courage it takes to step into the unknown to achieve a level of growth dictated only by the will, you know that it is feasible. This is a philosophy committed to perseverance. Sticktoitivity!

Basketball legend Michael Jordan said in this way in one of his shoe commercials: "I lost more than nine thousand shots in my career. I lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times I trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why to succeed. "A fitting tribute to a tribute to persistence. Sticktoitivity!

The only thing I can guarantee is that life will test your determination and commitment. It 's the way the universe works. Here are some famous examples of setbacks that have demonstrated they understand "sticktoitivity.

• Decca Records rejected the Beatles arguing that he did not like their sound and guitar music was the way out.

• Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express has received a grade of C for its high-level thesis outlines the concept of Federal Express. The professor claimed the idea was not feasible.

• When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.

• FW Woolworth was employed in a dry goods store when he was 21, But His employer does not leave Would wait on customers HIM Because he "did not have enough common sense."

• Western Union dismissed the telephone when Alexander Graham Bell gave them the rights to manufacture and distribution. In their view, technology has too many flaws.

• Dr. Seuss was rejected by numerous publishers who claimed that verse and imagination not to sell.

• A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had good ideas.

• Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.

• Steven Spielberg dropped out of school in his sophomore year. He was convinced to return and placed in a class of learning disabilities. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever.

• Albert Einstein said, hesitating for the first nine years of his life. His grades at school were so poor that a teacher asked him to leave, saying, 'Einstein, you'll never be anything'. "

... "Fall seven times, standing eight.

Have you ever defined "success" or "failure" on your terms. I recommend it. Certainly creates a sense of understanding, attention and purpose of your life. Sometimes success is learning to fail. Sometimes success is overcoming obstacles that define failure. Sometimes all you need to succeed is sticktoitivity. The failure not only learn something from this experience.

Here you are standing on the eighth time!