Motivational Stories Volume 2

                                                                     All About Failures

                                                  "Failure can be the bill-board for future successes."

Friends! All about failure is not negative! It can be the bill-board for future successes. Thus, the pain of failure should not embitter you, but it should empower you. That you failed does not make you a failure! For failure is not a person but an event! All you need do is to repeat the whole event again as you make the wrongs right. Then you will arrive at your success!

Learn from every mistakes and move on.

                                               "Mistakes are the ribbons used to decorate the road to success".

John Keats said: Mistakes and failures in a sense are the highways to success in as much as every discovery of what is false, leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. He, who makes no mistakes, make no progress! I have made very big mistakes in life! Infact, I have never made a small mistakes! I repeat for emphasis: no mistakes, no progress! Forgive yourself. Learn very fast and move on! Even the best people have a lot more failures than successes, but they quickly let go.

                                                                             ALBERT EINSTEIN

One of the greatest geniuses that ever lived was a man called Albert Einstein. He was referred to as the world most brilliant chap. Albert Einstein was born on 14th March 1879 in Ulm Wirtemberg Germany. Einstein was recognized as a leading scientific thinker in 1909. This was ever before he was appointed as a full professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911. He was such a great man, a genius indeed. An authority in mathematics and Physics. Most of the outstanding theories and laws in these fields of study were discovered and made by him.

After his death on 18th April 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, the American Scientists conducted a research on his brain. This was because he was too outstanding! They wanted to find out why he was so brilliant and intelligent. Friends! I like you to know that the American scientists were puzzled at their findings! They found out that Albert Einstein's brain was like a normal American. This is to say that it was just like that of a normal human-being.

Still anxiuos to find out why Albert Einstein was such an outstanding personality, the American scientists decided to study his academic history. They found out that Albert Einstein started as a failure and ended up a genius. It may surprise you to know that the great Albert Einstein failed an examination in 1895 that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an Electrical Engineer at the Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich. But, he never quit because he realised that winners never quit and quitters never win! Rather, following the failing of the entrance exams to the ETH, Einstein attended secondary school at Aarau planning to use this route to enter the ETH in Zurich.

                                                             "Men fail because they give up too early."

Don't allow your history (your yesterday) to kill your destiny (your tremendous future). Most people stop trying in trying times. Be different! Go another day, week and year! It's never too late to be what you might have been! Mary Crowley said, "you may give out, but never give up". Elbert Hubbard said there is no failure except in no longer trying! Remember that all great people (including Albert Einstein) who affected their geneartions were men who suffered delays! Ask Christopher Columbus or Abraham Lincoln.

                                                                   "Men don't fail! They give up trying."

People who succeed do not have fewer problems than people who fail. As a matter of fact, the only people without problems are in the cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separate failures from successes, it is how we perceive it and what we do about what happens that makes the difference!

Even when Albert Einstein suceeded with his plan graduating in 1900 as a teacher of Mathematics and Physics. One of his friends at ETH was Marcel Grossman who was in the same class as Einstein together with two other students, were appointed assistants lecturers at ETH in Zurich while Albert Einstain was not. But in 1901 he was writing round universities in the hope of obtaining a job, but without success. Friends! Look at where he has ended up today- the world's greatest.

Little wonder, one of the greatest President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln has this to say concerning his secret:

                "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than anything."

Though he was one of the greatest failures ever known in the history o planet earth, he ended up being elected as the Preseident of the United States of America in 1958 after a complete catalogue of failures. Infact, he was failure personalized.

Yes! It is practically up to you! Do not forget! All about failure is not negative! See you at the pick of your destiny. You are welcome to the world of the genius. Your case will not be different and your story is next in line in the BOOK - THEY HAVE GRACED THE PAGES OF HISTORY.

Thank you for taking out time to read through this month's Motivational Stories. Your life is just about to begin. So see you next week.



                  Nick Imoru
                  Director
                  Esteem Motivation, Inc.