Dare to Fail

My nephew, Ryan sent this to me and it is so pertinent right now I had to share it with you.

Had to share it in case you missed it.

I read a great quote in a Guidepost the other day that said, failure
is only permanent if you give up and quit....and then this morning,
the CBS Morning show covered the very same topic....I felt a need to
share so I hope you don't mind ;-)

I urge you to go out this week, this year, this lifetime...and dare
to fail....for it's through our failures that we learn, we grow, we
become......

Did you know the billionaire author of Harry Potter was practically
penniless?? I've added some of the examples of people who failed big
time, but are now on top.....May your failures take you places you've
only dreamed of.......God bless....Ryan

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(CBS) If at first you don't succeed, the saying says, the thing to do
is not give up, but try, try again. When people tell you you should
quit, but you don't want to stop, just think about the stories of some
people now on top

Sometimes when things fail, they were simply ahead of their time. Did
you know the fax machine was actually a failed invention in the 1840s?


The copy machine was invented in 1937, but the idea was rejected by
the likes of GE and IBM. It would be 10 years before Xerox's machine
would make its debut.

And the Apple Newton - the first handheld PDA - was a flop, but its
innovations can be seen today in the wildly successful iPhone.

John Grisham, whose first novel was rejected by a dozen publishing
houses.

Henry Ford, who went bankrupt 5 times.

More "failures": Artist Vincent van Gogh, who sold only one painting
in his lifetime ... Orville Wright, who was expelled from elementary
school ... and the Chicago Cubs, who haven't won a World Series since
1908 (and they haven't played in one since 1945).

Is Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones a failure? Surely not:
his .369 batting average leads the major leagues by a significant
margin, yet that means he's making outs - failing - more than 60% of
the time

And so it goes ... Michael Jordan failed to make his varsity
basketball team ... Oprah Winfrey failed as a news reporter ...
Winston Churchill finished last in his class.

Failure puts you in pretty good company ... company that includes
J.K. Rowling, the world's first billion-dollar author. The creative
wizard behind "Harry Potter," the most successful novel series in
history, who made failure the topic of her speech to this year's
Harvard grads.

"A mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic
scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was
jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern
Britain, without being homeless," she said. "And so rock bottom became
the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

Perhaps, then, there is never a reason to fear failure. Instead, as
Rowling might suggest, we ought to embrace it.

"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."