“Failure is an event. It is not a person.”

A thought by Zig Ziglar (2003-01-01) from his book, Zig Ziglar's Life Lifters (p. 49). B&H Publishing. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

So many people think they are failures. And they live acting like it. Do you feel that way? But Zig says, “Failure is an event. It is not a person.”

He goes on, “If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't sweat it. You're not stuck there. You can grow. You can change. Just remember that you are what you are and where you are because of what's gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.” You can do that. I know you can.

He goes on, “Psychologist Shad Helmstetter summed up much of what I'm saying with this statement: ‘You can't change from a negative mind-set to a positive mind-set without changing from negative talking to positive talking. To do that, you must change the input from negative to positive.’”

What are you watching? What are you reading? Is the person you are with the most always negative?

Granted you may have failed at something but that doesn’t make you a failure, it just means you tried and it didn’t work.

Remember what Zig says, “Failure is an event—it's not a person. Yesterday really did end last night. Today is a brand new day, and it's yours.”

He also says, “Understand that you can make radical changes in small steps. Remember, earthquakes and hurricanes get all the publicity, but termites do more damage than both of them combined—and the termite takes bites so small that you cannot see them with the naked eye. But they are persistent, they take lots of bites—and there are lots of termites.”

So what small bite are you going to take today?

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