Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes
into Stepping Stones for Success by
John C. Maxwell
A Must Read For Every Entrepreneur
The author of 24 books on maximizing personal and leadership potential,
John C. Maxwell believes the difference between average people and
achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. In Failing
Forward, he offers inspirational advice for turning the difficulties that
inevitably arise in life into stepping stones that help you reach the top.
Noting that star performers are often those who aggressively push forward
after encountering adversity, Maxwell shows how a variety of well-known
and not-so-well-known people have forged ahead despite obstacles that
could have derailed them. They include: Mary Kay Ash, who founded her
cosmetics firm against enormous odds when the direct-sales company she
toiled in for 25 years resisted her continued corporate climb; Truett Cathy,
who lost two brothers (and business partners) in an airplane crash and
experienced his own serious medical problems before establishing the

Chick-fil-A fast-food chain; Greg Horn, who reopened his Kentucky
grocery store just 21 days after it suffered $1 million in flood damage; and
Beck Weathers, who lost his nose, half of one arm, and the fingers on his
other in the infamous 1996 Into Thin Air Mt. Everest tragedy, but now
takes a positive message of survival and conquest to audiences around
the world. --Howard Rothman
Personal Review: Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into
Stepping Stones for Success by John C. Maxwell
Book Review
Failing Forward- John C. Maxwell
This book is for the eternal optimist, and those who straddle the fence. Dr.
Maxwell explores our defined parameters of what it means to fail, and what
it means to be a real success. John Maxwell has used the term REAL, to
define the key components of being a success. Those key components are
"Relationships, Equipping, Attitude, and Leadership."
In order to change your perspective on what it means to fail you must look
at what your perceived definition of failure is and what failure is not. Dr.
Maxwell laid out 5 rules for defining failure.
1) You will learn lessons.
2) There are no mistakes-only lessons.
3) A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
4) If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder.
5) You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.
John's book is a step by step directional guide one how to look at failure as
a teaching lesson and a can become a positive impact on your life. "How
do you cultivate optimism, by learning the secret of contentment. If you can
learn that, then no matter what happens to you, you can weather the storm
and build on the good you find in any situation."
This book is a great guideline for anyone who is or has faced a challenge
and the result of that challenge was not the intended results. This book is
not the golden book of answers, it does require to the reader to think and
apply a certain perspective of self evaluation. This book does very clearly
outline for the reader how to shift the borders of their current thinking and
evaluation skills, if they are willing to be self aware and to change
themselves from within.
The texts lessons can be summed up in the following list of requirements
to Fail Forward.
1) Realized there is one major difference between average people and
achieving people.
2) Lean a new definition of failure.
3) Remove the "you" from failure.
4) Take action and reduce your fear.
5) Change your response to failure by accepting responsibility.
6) Don't let failure from outside get inside you.
7) Say good-bye to yesterday.

8) Change yourself, and your world changes.
9) Get over yourself and start giving yourself.
10) Find the benefit in every bad experience.
11) If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
12) Learn from a bad experience and make it a good experience.
13) Work on the weakness that weakens you.
14) Understand there's not much difference between failure and
success.
15) Get up, get over it, get going.
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