Your past mistakes are not an accurate reflection of what your future will be. People’s low expectations of you do not have to be your reality. Your perception of yourself becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when combined with faith a commitment to follow it through. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Make plans, make the necessary adjustments to your life and follow them through. Life’s challenges simply create an opportunity for your character to be refined as you grow, mature and evolve as an individual. Failure is an opinion in the mind of the beholder. Adversity births patience & patience character. Character gives birth to your legacy – and your legacy Inspires generations. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because they said he lacked imagination, then was told by MGM studios that a mouse on screen would scare women & never work. Colonel Saunders got 1009 no before he got a restaurateur to say yes, and one was all he needed to start his billion-dollar empire. When I Jamall Petty started my cooking show people said – it was too expensive it cannot be done – 39 episodes later I still say it can. The first Island Flare food fight culinary battle ended 30 minutes into the competition when the ring collapsed with the competitors cooking, a journalist came over & asked if I am willing to do it again even though it failed – I responded by saying It did not fail – we just learned what not to do so that next year and the years to come will be greater, Three competition’s later, the Food Fight has sent high school students off to college on scholarships and culinary explorations; and will be the first Bahamian competition to be held in Jamaica in 2014. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He is the greatest basketball player of all time. His legacy is significant not only because of his success but also because he learned and grew in the midst of his failures – He is quoted below: - “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ”When J.K Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, spoke to a graduating class at Harvard. Surprisingly she didn’t talk about success being one of the only two billionaires in entertainment. She talked about her failures as quoted below. “You might never fail on the scale I did,” Rowling told that privileged audience. “But it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default. It is absolute human to make bad decisions or mistakes, but failure is a state of mind. You learn from your mistakes, perfect your craft and become stronger and more focused on your impending success in your professional & personal life. Great people, businesses, cooperation’s, relationships and any success story you can think about - has a story behind it. Embrace and expect the challenges of life they prepare you for the stage of life.
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