How failing forward to succeed works | Xavier shares his insights into
Someone once said, “There’s never the right time to do the things you once paused; until that good of a time surpasses your list of excuses caused”. This thought of white light is also valid for the rainy days of new beginnings for the rainbow of experience to appear. Everything is life comes at a cost and success especially, comes with the loudest knock of failures. This is an inevitable truth, an ugly one too but the dawn of victory looks even more enticing after having watched many haunting cold nights of failure.
Success garnishes life giving us the bittersweet taste of how it is to be planted on the river banks and to parch-up in the drought. The platter of life also hosts business and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that any successful trade wasn’t birthed overnight. Every start-up is that which is stretched as the horizon where the grand realities of life and the entrepreneurs’ wishful thinking meet; the former swallowing the latter most of the time. This wrenching truth when experienced shouldn’t be the reason why there won’t be a second or the nth try at that.
When met with failures, brands ought to acknowledge them as stepping stones and not as those of the bruising kind. Revisiting the beginning of their endeavors and familiarizing with reviews are to be done to see where it all went south. For mistakes are the brightest stars when seen from the observatory that first spotted them. Failing to try, even when the chances to succeed are slim doesn’t pile up defeat but the abstract knowledge of experience that even success cannot reward.
Being on the losing side on many D- Days will adorn and inspire us to treasure the V-Day when it finally happens. The role on the day of victory wouldn’t sit well when we haven’t fallen on the gloomy bad days. It’s a given truth that the world might not embrace our ideas and beginnings in the first meet. But careful self-examination and the courage to step up and give it another try is all that matters. We are never to predict how or when we succeed. But how fast are we to get up, dust ourselves and meet the failure undauntedly is the greatest privilege that lies in our hands.