You have probably heard that failures are just missed opportunities. That statement has always irritated me. What do you mean missed opportunity? What I have learned is that I just could not see or understand the opportunities were in front of me. So how do you own your mistakes and begin to see opportunity. You begin by taking responsibility for those actions and the outcomes that they produced. You need to start your financial comeback with change your perception of failure, be responsible for your actions and deal with the consequences of your previous actions.

Understanding the importance of failure is imperative. There is a professor at MIT who offers a course on failure. He does that, he says, because failure is a far more common experience than success. No one recognizes all the attempts that are needed to make a success. Failure is tough - actually it is devastating. However, it can put your life in perspective for you. You are not perfect. You can attempt, but life is still going to happen around you. And the more you try to be perfect, the more difficult it will be for you to handle your imperfections when they come. It may become apparent in one failure to that you thought you could control. But often you cannot control the outcomes after decisions have been made.

I say again you need to change your perception of failure. Failures are the steps to great success. As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." Failures are only the results of the choices we make. They are the steps to getting what we ultimately want. Remember your individual choices may have failed, but you are not a failure. You have the opportunity to make new choices that will allow you to succeed! Here lies the key to why failures can be opportunities - the opportunity is the chance to make a new decision, the chance to try again! That is the opportunity. That is your winning lottery ticket. You have figured out how "NOT" be a financial success. Whatever you were doing before it did not work. Because you are now in control you have the chance, the opportunity to make new choices, choices that can make you successful!

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