February 29, 2012
It’s Just Feedback!
It’s Just Feedback!
One of the rules I teach in the “10 rules for Developing Win-Win Relationships that Lead to Revenue” is There is no Failure only Feedback.
So often we see events and circumstances in our business and our life as failures and these so called failures provide reasons (aka excuses) for us to quit.
What would happen if you looked at these so called “failures” as just feedback? I think that if we took everything that happens to us as feedback, we would all become ferocious learning machines.
If you are communicating with someone, either in face to face conversation, through your marketing material, or over the telephone, and you fail to get the response you are looking for, what do you do?
The answer is simple, you alter your communication until you get the result you want. You look at the failure as simply feedback and make adjustments.
Living your life by this one simple rule changes all areas of your life, especially the areas that demand persistence and the wisdom of learning from “what doesn’t work”. Like building and growing a business. Learning what doesn’t work is equally as important as finding out what does. Paying attention to feedback is critical.
People tend to give up too easily. How many relationships, both business and personal, end because people “fail” to get what they want immediately? How much business do we miss out on because we take “failures” as a reason to quit or back off?
Thomas Edison’s 10,000 experiments looking for a filament to work in his light bulb is a great example of this principle. When asked, “It must be hard to have failed 10,000 times!” Edison replied, ” I didn’t have 10,000 failures. I just found 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb.”
Where in your life or business are you ignoring the feedback and accepting the failure? What would happen if you applied this rule? Are you willing to give it a try this week?
Remember…No failure…only feedback!
I would love to hear your thoughts and how this rule worked for you.
Have a great week!!
January 4, 2012
Happy New Year!
Welcome 2012! This year I have decided to create a theme for the upcoming year. For me, my keywords are growth and adventure. I am looking forward to growing, both personally and professionally. There are lots of exciting things on the horizon and Iook forward to sharing them!