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TOPIC: Pillar and Failure

Objective: Ive been thinking recently about how I define success, and what a life
well-lived encompasses. Ive come up with ten pillars that I believe create the
foundation for how I wish to live my life. My goal for outlining these is to help
myself define my beliefs, but more importantly, to amplify the success of you, the
reader, who may share the same values.

Below are the ten pillars I have defined as the keys to success. If you like these
ideas great youve found a community of like-minded people.

Pillar is a strong column made of stone, metal, or wood that supports part of a
building:

A row of reinforced concrete pillars supports the bridge.

It is a very important member or part of a group, organization, system, etc.:

Mrs Maple is a pillar of the local church.

Equality is one of the pillars of socialism.

Failure, Event in which any part of an equipment or machine does not perform
according to its operational specifications. Failures are classified into several
categories: dependent failure, non-critical failure, random failure, etc.

-How to improve pillar and failure?

1. Be the gladiator in the arena, not the spectator in the sidelines:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and bloodwho at the best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so
that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know
victory nor defeat. -Teddy Roosevelt
2. Continuous self-improvemen:

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and
striving for his goals. -Aristotle

3. Associate with people who will bring you up

The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you
closely associate for the good and the bad.

4. Avoid dogmatism

When you shout ideology out, what youre doing is pounding it in, pounding it in,
and youre gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of
any ideology. Its a big danger.-Aristotle

5. Minimalism

Too many people spend money they havent earned, to buy things they dont want,
to impress people they dont like. Will Rogers

6. Put physical health first

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is
the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. -John F. Kennedy

7. Cultivate the mindset

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are
things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and
burning desire, can be translated into riches. -Napoleon Hill

8. Develop emotional intelligence & emotional control

its emotional intelligence that is the deciding factor. Emotional intelligence means
having the ability to examine your own and others peoples emotions and use
emotional information to guide your thinking and actions.-Daniel Goleman
9. Provide immense value

Get good at coming up with lots of ideas that help other people. Thats how you
create the most wealth. Thats the fastest way to choose yourself. -James

Altucher10. Remain humble: A great man is always willing to be little. -Ralph

Waldo Emerson

4. Topic: The Key to Sustainable Success: Turning Failure into

Opportunities for Personal & Professional Growth.

Objective: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw

How can you treat failure as an opportunity for learning, growth,

improvement, and transformation?

Steve Jobs. Abraham Lincoln. J.K. Rowling. Oprah Winfrey. Albert Einstein.

1. What do all of these bright and successful minds some of the best in our
time have in common? They were each were regarded as failures at some point
in their lives.

Unfortunately, failure has been given a bad rap in our society, and unnecessarily so.
Sure, it can feel scary to live passionately, embrace mistakes, and be vulnerable
when we live in a culture where perfection is expected, money is equated with
success, and meritocracy is often relegated to a euphemism for maintaining the
status quo. However, it is possible to steer this societal fear of failure toward a far
healthier direction: as leaders, we have the choice to cultivate a culture of courage.
When we choose to create an environment in which people are encouraged to
grow, take risks, and innovate, we all emerge victorious regardless whether we
win or lose. Because whos keeping score when the goal is growth?

As a child, Albert Einstein was thought to be too mentally slow even to attend
school. It was only later that he set about revolutionizing physics!

2. Turn failure into success:

Our perspective changes everything. If we view failure and success as different

sides of the same coin, its easy to see that one isnt possible without the other.
More importantly, neither is better than the other its all a matter of
mindfulness. Accept an experience for what it is, no matter the outcome; learn
from it, and move forward. Failure provides invaluable opportunities for learning
and growth, both personally and professionally.

Entrepreneur Eric Rise has learned this from first-hand experience. His numerous
business failures led him to create an entire movement based on failing as often as
possible: The Lean Startup explains that the more we fail, the more we learn, and
the more quickly we can find out what works best. Further, our job doesnt end
once we find something that qualifies as some sort of success; in fact, this is when
our job really begins.

Author J.K. Rowling created opportunities for personal growth out of challenges
that certainly felt like failures at the time she went from being poor and
depressed to becoming a beloved, lucrative author.

This is why having a compassionate attitude toward mistake-making is essential

for the long-term success of any company. If we create a culture where our
employees and customers have room to make mistakes, our professional
relationships will be more honest and rewarding from both sides. There is
perhaps no greater gift for a leader than to be given freedom to fail, and to dare
greatly. This freedom is founded in community-based qualities like empathy,
compassion, and loyalty.

By re-framing failure as an opportunity for personal and professional growth, we

transform it into success.

3. Gain confidence by taking action:

One of the most important aspects of servant leadership is to take action often.
Why? Because it creates confidence. Whether we fail or succeed, we can always
learn from our mistakes, risks, and leaps but we cant learn anything if we dont
take a step forward. Entrepreneurs, managers, and CEOs frequently find
themselves facing challenging situations. Remembering our underlying purpose
can bring clarity why are we doing what were doing in the first place?

Thomas Edison, one of our greatest inventors, went through 9,000 failed attempts
at the light bulb until he hit upon the one that worked.

The skills that we hone when getting out from under failure are vital for
confidence-building. They allow us to practice our ability to take risks (be
courageous); admit mistakes (be honest with ourselves and others); learn from our
experience (be innovative and creative); and move forward (be positive,
purposeful, optimistic, and passionate). CEO Marc Lesser poignantly affirms the
benefits of finding the joy in failure:

When we can relax and open ourselves to the myriad small failures, it actually
increases our ability to perform at higher levels, and reduces the risk of larger
failures that might have important consequences.
My heart, like yours, is tender. In fact, this is one of the great benefits of so-called
failures. Failure can soften our hearts, and allow us to see and connect with the
tender hearts of others.