I believe that as a human being there's a lot of things I still have to learn and to improved in myself. I don't aim for perfection, but I want to become a better person and if possibly I want to become a good servant of God. To learn and to achieve something you can be a smart person who learn from your mistakes or be the smarter person who learn from other people mistakes. Do you know how we became different from one another? It is how we respond and react to our situation.
Positivity lift up people or build something while negativity destroys it. What I have said in one of my entry before that a positive reinforcement can build people to become a better performer and person. Just think of this, when your teacher, parents or boss didn't say anything positive about you, do you think you can be encourage to become a better performer or a person? When all you can hear from them is you are a failure or loser in life? When your boss or teacher doesn't give any compliment that you did a job well done in your work or say thank you for what you have done. What do you think will happen? Same with telling success and failure stories, When you tell a story about how you failed, it serves as a lesson or a warning for others that these are the things that doesn't work for me or for you. But when you tell success stories, it inspires and motivate people that after failures there is a sweet success that is waiting. When you failed you have to accept it, but never put it in your heart. Get up! it is not the end, it simply means that it is another thing that doesn't work for you.
I got this from Francis Kong's article, And Then There Was Light:
The world may not realize how significant Thomas Edison is to our lives. As the inventor of the incandescent lamp, he provided the world with light needed to carry on life and progress. Let me tell you something about him. On October 18, 1879, the young inventor Edison sat in his laboratory after 13 months of repeated failures in his search for a filament that would stand the stress of electric current. To add to his problems, the men who had been giving him financial aid now refused to put up any additional funds.
Having tried every known metal in his experiment, Edison was baffled. Casually picking up a bit of lampblack., he mixed it with tar and rolled it into a thin thread. Suddenly the thought struck him-why not try a carbonized cotton fiber? For five hours he worked on the first filament, but it broke before he could remove the mold. Edison used two entire spools of thread in similar fruitless efforts. At last a perfect strand emerged, only to be ruined when he tried to place it inside a glass tube.
Still Edison refused to admit defeat. He continued to work without sleep for two more days and nights. Eventually he managed to insert one of the crude carbonized threads into a vacuum-sealed bulb. "When we turned on the current, "he said, "the sight we had so long desired finally met our eyes!"
Thomas Edison had endured failure after failure, and his finances were in jeopardy. He was under tremendous stress. But his persistence in the face of the most discouraging circumstances gave the world one of its greatest inventions-the electric light.
A great American, Booker T. Washington, had this say about stress: "No man should be pitied because everyday of his life he faces a hard, stubborn problem. It is the man who has no problems to solve, no hardships to face, who is to be pitied. he has nothing in his life which will strengthen and form his character, nothing to call out hos latent powers and deepen and widen his hold on life."
Rich McLawhorn says something encouraging, too: "In the midst of stress and tension, direct your trust toward heaven. The wind of God is always blowing. That wind can bring you countless blessings, including peace. But one's sail must be raised to catch the wind. Hoist your sail, and catch God's wind."
And the Word of God comforts us in Isaiah 26:3: " He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord!"
When you encounter stress, keep these words and Edison's example in mind. They will help you keep your equilibrium. As stress exerts its force on you, seek true peace. And what is true peace? Not the absence of conflict, but rather, the absence of inner turmoil.
Francis Kong seminar watch here
Francis Kong share on this seminar how he handles his children when they are facing failure. I think parents and teachers should learn from this. Sometimes, our wrong response and reaction when we handle other people who are facing failures creates a great impact on them. We should be careful on how we handle it, because we can build or might destroy them.
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