10,000 Times!

"Mistakes"..."Failures"...there's no such thing, really. A "mistake" is actually just another step towards your goal, towards your success. Every so-called mistake is an opportunity to learn and move forward, stronger and wiser than before. The most successful people in the world are also the people who have "failed" the most. When Thomas Edison said he would invent an electric light, people laughed at him. Over one year and 10,000 failures later (yes, 10,000!), he demonstrated the first electric light bulb. 

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was the age of four, and did not read until age seven. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. As we all know, he did eventually learn to speak and read...and he even learned to do a little math.

The biggest failure is not trying…or giving up. In the words of Winston Churchill, "Never, never, never, never give up." Here's to your goals and to your success!