Understanding Failure!

I found this interesting excert and thought it had some interesting PERSPECTIVE that we could all use to better ourselves...myself included..in our own day to day activities through work and home!

Recognizing possible personal barriers is important in overcoming them.
Sometimes the way you think can dramatically impact your success.
If you think you won't be successfull you probably won't be.
Don’t give up.
Successful people just don’t give up.
They keep trying different approaches until they finally get the results they want. Unsuccessful people try one thing that doesn’t work and then give up.
Often people will give up when they are on the threshold of succeeding.
Don’t take failure personally.
Tell yourself that failure is not a personality characteristic.
Although what you do may not give you the result you wanted, it doesn’t mean you are a failure.
Ask yourself - How can I do better next time?
Ease up on yourself.
If nothing else, you know what doesn’t work.
Look at failure as an event or a happening, not as a judgment of you!

Train of Life

Some folks ride the train of life
Looking out the rear,
Watching miles of life roll by,
And marking every year.
They sit in sad remembrance,
Of wasted days gone by,
And curse their life for what it was,
And hang their head and cry.
But I don't concern myself with that,
I took a different vent,
I look forward to what life holds,
And not what has been spent.
So strap me to the engine,
As securely as I can be,
I want to be out on the front,
To see what I can see.
I want to feel the winds of change,
Blowing in my face,

I want to see what life unfolds,
As I move from place to place.
I want to see what's coming up,
Not looking at the past,
Life's too short for yesterdays,
It moves along too fast.
So if the ride gets bumpy,
While you are looking back,
Go up front, and you may find,
Your life has jumped the track.
It's all right to remember,
That's part of history,
But up front's where it's happening,
There's so much mystery.
The enjoyment of living,
Is not where we have been,
It's looking ever forward,
To another year and ten.
It's searching all the byways,
Never should you refrain,
For if you want to live your life,
You gotta drive the train!

~author unknown~