How Many “Nos” Can You Take?

The issue every one of us must address is not so much as what we want to become, but the extent to which we can go before realising our goals. From the studies I carried out personally, I realised that most super successful people have one thing in common: they don’t take “no” for an answer.

 

Lincoln’s record of many failures before he became president of America buttresses this fact.

It is on record that Lincoln:

“Failed in business at age 31;

Was defeated in a legislative race at age 32;

Failed again in business at age 34;

Lost his wife in 1835 at age 35;

Had a nervous breakdown at age 36;

Lost an election at age 38;

Lost a congressional race at age 43;

Lost a congressional race at age 46;

Lost a congressional race at age 48;

Lost a senatorial race at age 50;

Failed in an effort to become vice president at age 52; but

Was finally elected president of the United States at age 60.

Your success in life is hinged on the number of “nos” you can take. IT IS YOUR ABILITY TO HANDLE THE PAINS, THE SADNESS, AND THE SORROW BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE WORD “NO” THAT WILL DISTINGUISH YOU AND MAKE YOU STAND OUT OF THE CROWD.

If Lincoln had said, “I have had enough, I can’t take it anymore,” and quit, he would not have become president of his country. It is said that life will give to you what you ask of it, but until you convince life that you are worthy of it, life will not give to you what you ask of it.

 

One great gulf that stands between losers and winners is ATTITUDE. Losers tend to interpret failure as a personality. Therefore, the thought of being considered a failure would not make them to try embarking on any new project.

I don’t blame them, because once in a while we all take failure as a terrible experience. But this should not be so, because you are not a failure simply because you failed.

Failure, like success, is an event. As Elizabeth Kubler Ross said, “THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, NO COINCIDENCES. ALL EVENTS ARE BLESSINGS GIVEN TO US TO LEARN.”

Failure should be seen as a pill, not a poison. The moment you start seeing failure as a pill, and not a poison, your progress in life has begun. Failures are pills meant to cure our fears. THE MORE FAILURES YOU ARE WILLING TO EXPERIENCE, THE QUICKER WILL BE YOUR RATE OF SUCCESS.

Brian Tracy once wrote about one Arthur Gordon who approached Thomas Watson Sr., founder of IBM. Gordon asked Watson how he could succeed faster as a writer.

Watson replied: “IF YOU WANT TO BE A SUCCESSFUL WRITER, YOU MUST DOUBLE YOUR RATE OF FAILURE.”

One person that lived the reality of this word of wisdom is Thomas Edison. When Edison set out to invent the electric bulb many years ago, he made up his mind to take all the “nos” that must be taken before arriving at the discovery.

It is on record that Edison took more than 10,000 “nos” before he found a way of making the bulb to work.

At the 9,999^th time, someone asked him if he wanted to fail the 10, 000^th time. Edison said he had not failed, but had discovered 9,999 ways that the bulb would not work.

Dear reader, life will give you what you demand of it. If you ask for a Kobo, life will give you a kobo; if you ask for a naira, life will give you a naira. But what life requires of you is the ability to take many nos on your way to getting what you ask of. So, the things that are standing between you and what you want to get are the nos. These nos could be setbacks, disappointments, failures, defeat, discouragement, frustrations, etc.

SOMETIMES, THEY COME IN BATTALION, BUT IT IS YOUR ABILITY TO HANDLE THEM THAT DETERMINES HOW FAR YOU CAN GO IN LIFE.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross said, “THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, NO COINCIDENCES. ALL EVENTS ARE BLESSINGS GIVEN TO US TO LEARN.” Your nos or whichever names you want to call them – failure, disappointment, rejection, etc, are all events and they are not meant to harm us but to bless us. However, if you see them as harmful and you refuse to focus on the blessings therein, that is when they tend to weigh you down.

Make up your mind today that you will  take all the nos that are standing between you and what you demand of life, and that you will never give up until you succeed.  

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