The document introduces "The Alchemy of Success", a systematic process developed by Kim Sawyer to help executives leverage failure into future success. The process involves four stages: Failure, where one faces responsibility for what went wrong; Attention, accepting the truth about what needs to change; Integration, struggling through trial and error to develop new skills; and Launch, applying the lessons in a state of mastery and flow. By going through these stages in response to failures, one can continually learn and improve, converting each failure into greater success.

1. THE ALCHEMY OF SUCCESS™
How Failure is Critical to Success

2. Ask the most successful person you know how he got where he is,
and chances are, he’ll tell you about a lot of failures along the way.
That’s because failure – and how you use it to grow – is critical to
creating success.
But converting breakdown to breakthrough is no easy feat.

3. Kim Sawyer, Executive Coach and
President of theWealthSource®, has
developed a systematic process to
help executives respond to failure and
leverage it to create future success.
It’s called “The Alchemy of Success™.”
The alchemy of turning failure into success involves far more than just
having a positive attitude.

4. The Alchemy of Success™ is based on the F.A.I.L. model, which stands
for “Failure, Attention, Integration and Launch.” Growth and evolution
to the next level always consists of a journey through each of these
phases in sequence.
F
Failure
A
Attention
I
Integration
L
Launch

5. In the FAILURE stage, you have been pushed up against your limits -
perhaps by a mistake, a bad habit or an exciting opportunity. Things
seem to be going wrong, and it is not clear why. Here you are faced
with a “moment-of-truth” choice to either assign blame or to own
responsibility for what is happening.
F
Failure

6. Choosing responsibility means having to pay ATTENTION to what it
is in you that needs to change in light of the failure. This can be very
uncomfortable, and many back away. But accepting the truth about
yourself gives you freedom and guidance to initiate the right changes.
A
Attention

7. INTEGRATION is the place of trial and error. It often involves struggles
and mistakes. It is here that the needed new qualities and skills are
forged in the heat of dedicated practice.
I
Integration

8. Finally, LAUNCH is that “State of Flow” where the lessons learned
through Failure, Attention and Integration are applied and mastered.
In this process, the new level of competence becomes unconscious
and natural to you.
L
Launch

9. So there’s good and bad news. The bad news is you are going to have
more opportunities to fail. The good news is that you now have a way
to convert each failure into even greater success.
The Alchemy of Success™ is a rigorous discipline that teaches 100%
unconditionally constructive response to failure, ensures lifelong
learning, and leaves everyone and everything better than if the failure
had never happened!
theWealthSource® presents this powerful technique in keynote
addresses, custom workshops and individual coaching sessions. To
learn more about The Alchemy of Success™, or to schedule a keynote
address, a complimentary one-hour coaching session, or an interview
with Kim Sawyer, call theWealthSource® at 832-298-0143.
P.O. Box 22775
Houston, Texas 77227
www.theWealthSource.com