Identify
someone you consider to be successful and ask that person how many
failures he or she had before success came. I guarantee you that any
successful person had to learn failure before success. That's what
learning is all about: doing it wrong in order to get it right. We don't
all succeed at everything we try. Most of us go through failure to
reach success, just as we go through fear in order to build courage.
Weight
lifting is a great example to illustrate this process of going through
failure to reach success. Years ago, when I started building up my
scrawny 112 pound body through weight training, my first instructor
introduced me to the concept of "going for failure." I didn't think that
sounded so fun-"Let's go fail!"-but my coach explained that breaking a
muscle down by exhausting it totally was the best way to build it
stronger. By going to failure, I prepared my muscles for greater
success. I failed so that I eventually could succeed.
Life
is no different. Failure is a necessary part of growing and building
strength to eventually succeed. Consider the case of a lanky Midwestern
boy who chopped wood for his father until he was twenty-one, but who had
always hungered for more out of life. He started borrowing books and
reading every evening. What he read began to inspire and motivate him to
become a risk-taker in the pursuit of success. He was willing to fail
in order to succeed, and fail is exactly what he did:
· At age 23 he ran as a candidate for state legislature and lost. · At age 30 he was bankrupt. · At age 32 the woman he loved and intended to marry broke off the engagement breaking his heart. · At age 33 he married another woman who bore him four sons, of which three he lost because they died before reaching adulthood. · At age 35 he ran again as a candidate for state legislature and again he lost. · At age 47 he was selected a vice-presidential candidate and again he lost. · At age 49 he was nominated for the United States Senate and again he lost. The
man described above, however, was elected President of the United
States of America at age 51. His frequent experiences of failure gave
Abraham Lincoln the resolve to handle the great challenges of his
presidency and the repeated initial failure of the Union forces. He
never saw failure as a reason to stop attempting success, and he
ultimately changed the course of American history.
Failure
is never the end of the road. Failure is how you learn and grow.
Whether it's building biceps, achieving financial freedom, becoming the
best parent possible, or reaching the Oval Office: you must fail to
succeed.
From our June Newsletter
Photofacial IPL & Skin Tightening
Summer is here and
you want to look and feel your best!Everyone deserves their summer seasonal glow and a variety of cosmetic
laser procedures can help your patients achieve that desired look.A terrific combination laser treatment is Photofacial
(IPL) and Skin Tightening.The dual
combination laser treatments will give skin a fresh new look.
The laser photofacial will improve the appearance
of photo-aged skin, remove age spots (sun induced freckles), and most brown
pigments.The laser Skin Tightening will
help restore a more youthful appearance to the skin smoothing the fine lines
and wrinkles that develop over time.The
laser uses light energy to deeply heat dermal collagen.This process stimulates the contraction of
the collagen in the skin.The heat also
initiates the body’s natural healing process which creates a renewed collagen
foundation leading to increased skin firmness.
Laser Skin Tightening treatments are safe and for all skin types and can
be performed on any area of the body where an improvement in skin firmness is
desired.Popular areas include the face,
neck, abdomen, and upper arms.A series
of 3-4 treatments spaced a month apart is typical for most patients.
Don’t get left behind this summer, get
started on enhancing the skin’s beauty through laser photo facial and skin
tightening!
