When You Get Knocked Down Do You Get Back Up Again?

There is an old saying "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up" by Vince Lombardi

The same thing can be said and applied to most things in life, it always depends on how you react to any given situation. Successes and failures are happening around us all the time. It's really easy to celebrate all your wins but how do you act when you lose?

When you apply this theory to running your business, to me, you can't look at it as failures. Thomas Edison has a famous quote about the light bulb it goes something like "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work". With a few exceptions in most cases you can look at something that didn't get the results you wanted as a learning experience of what not to do next time. If you are persistent and keep trying and making adjustments as you go eventually you will figure out what works best and basically fail your way to success.

A definition for insanity is: Someone who does the same thing the same way over and over again expecting a different result. In life and business you always want to be moving forward, adapting, evolving and getting better. There is many ways to be educated but there is no substitution for the knowledge you get from experience and putting in the time and work to master what ever you are working towards. That doesn't mean you need to master everything, it is best to keep you focus on your strongest talents and work with others who have talents that you are weaker at.

In the end never let life knock you down and stay down, get up and dust yourself off and keep moving forward always. The only reason to look back is to have clearer vision of the direction you need to go for a better future.