| ou ever wondered if what you know about home | | | | business failing? Don't quit. If you do, you actually |
| business is accurate? Consider the following | | | | admit defeat and you are already accepting that |
| paragraphs and compare what you know to the | | | | you are a failure. Do not look at failure as |
| latest info on home business. "Failure is the key to | | | | something to shun or be afraid of. Instead, look at |
| success; each mistake teaches us something." | | | | it as an opportunity --- to learn, to grow, to aspire |
| (Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido) Thomas Alva | | | | for more. Consider failure as a significant part of |
| Edison failed in his experiment for thousands of | | | | your life, because life demands that we act, |
| times before he was able to invent the electric | | | | participate, move. And in so doing, we take the |
| light bulb. Laurence Peter failed when more than | | | | risk of failing. But this only proves that we are |
| 20 publishers rejected his book, "The Peter | | | | actually doing our share. Now that we've covered |
| Principle," before it became a best-seller. Abraham | | | | those aspects of home business, let's turn to |
| Lincoln failed the bar exam, failed in several | | | | some of the other factors that need to be |
| business ventures, and failed in six major elections | | | | considered. FAILING SUCCESSFULLY Now that |
| before he was finally elected president. The truth | | | | you are aware of the positive aspects of failing, |
| is, all the aforementioned great people failed... but | | | | you are ready to apply these in your business or |
| they were not failures. Their actions may have | | | | your personal life. Here are some ways to |
| failed but not their very selves, definitely not their | | | | transform that failure into success: 1) Fail honestly. |
| spirits. In fact, they used those "failed moments" | | | | Sincerely acknowledge that you failed --- in that |
| as a challenge, as a key to their success. The | | | | particular endeavor, for that time. However, make |
| same can be said about any endeavor that we | | | | sure that you are not accepting defeat and you |
| get into, your home business for instance. Are | | | | are not looking at yourself as a failure. 2) Fail |
| you failing in your home business? Have you ever | | | | intelligently. Take advantage of a failed endeavor. |
| failed? What did you do? Did you wallow in | | | | Evaluate the experience. Analyze what went |
| self-pity and blame everyone for your fall? Or did | | | | wrong. Learn from such experience. 3) Fail |
| you choose to be positive about it? POSITIVE | | | | courageously. Do not use such failure as an alibi |
| ASPECTS OF FAILURE Many people fail to realize | | | | for quitting. Instead, extract more courage from |
| that "failure" in itself is not really a bad thing. In | | | | such failed endeavor and be ready to try again, |
| fact, most of those people who have found | | | | to make things better the next time. THE KEY |
| success --- whether in their business or personal | | | | TO UNLOCK YOUR SUCCESS There are |
| lives --- went through a series of failures. | | | | numerous reasons why endeavors, such as home |
| However, they did not see those experiences as | | | | businesses, fail. As discussed earlier, we have the |
| a bane but as a boon. They learned from their | | | | power to turn failure into success. Take note, |
| mistakes, from their failures, and they used these | | | | however, that we can allow failure to do two |
| lessons to try and try again until they attained | | | | things --- to lock the door towards our success or |
| success. Here are some positive aspects of | | | | to serve as a key to open the door and lead us |
| failure: *Failure can actually mean that you are | | | | to our success. Will you allow failure to lock that |
| broadening your goals and undertaking fresh | | | | precious door? Or will you use it to unlock and |
| challenges. In business, as in life, you encounter | | | | open the very same door that it had locked? |
| various changes and challenges. Do you welcome | | | | Here are some of those factors: *LOCKED: |
| such changes and challenges and see how you | | | | Unclear business plan *UNLOCK IT: Write out in |
| can improve your life through these? Or do you | | | | detail a business plan that is clear, complete, and |
| merely sulk and reject these because you are | | | | goal-oriented. A business plan is the very |
| already comfortable with the status quo and you | | | | foundation of your business. Remember that |
| do not want to take any risk? That's exactly the | | | | failing to plan is tantamount to planning to fail. |
| point. People who take the challenge face the risk | | | | *LOCKED: Unclear goals *UNLOCK IT: Formulate |
| of failure, but they also accept the opportunity to | | | | your goals and focus on them. How will you |
| succeed. Indeed, not failing may mean that you | | | | achieve something if you are not sure of what |
| refuse to aim high and broaden your goals. You | | | | you really want to achieve? *LOCKED: No |
| content yourself with setting "low goals" because | | | | specified target market *UNLOCK IT: Clearly |
| you are afraid of failure. In the end, the irony of it | | | | define your target market. By desiring to sell to |
| all is that you may be failing even more because | | | | everyone, you may end up selling to no one at all. |
| you have already lost the chance of success | | | | Truly, only a handful of people succeed easily. |
| when you chose to do nothing about it. *Failure | | | | Oftentimes, success is the sweet fruit that you |
| can be a good test of persistence and | | | | reap after toiling with failure. It can be the key to |
| perseverance. How far are you willing to go? How | | | | your success. Yes, we all experience failure in our |
| much are you willing to take? Truly, it is much, | | | | lives. But the question is: Do we use failure to |
| much easier to quit when you fail. However, a | | | | make us better? Or do we just choose to be |
| person who has the makings of a true successful | | | | bitter? So now you know a little bit about home |
| person will persevere. He will use whatever | | | | business. Even if you don't know everything, |
| lessons he has learned from past mistakes and | | | | you've done something worthwhile: you've |
| actually turn his failure into success. Is your | | | | expanded your knowledge. |