Success Sabotaging Lies By Mel Feller, MPA, MHR Offices in Texas and Utah Let me start by asking a couple of questions, what beliefs do you have about success and personal excellence? What programs do you have downloaded in the massive computer that is known as your brain? Are they a plus in your pursuit for self-help motivation and personal growth development? On the other hand, are they holding you back and controlling what you will be able to achieve? We have heard the opposite of the terms I have listed. Replace the opposite thoughts of these with these success belief builders. I wanted to point out the positive and not the negative. There Is No Such Thing as Failure The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” ~S.I. Hayakawa There is a man who failed in business at age 21. He was defeated in a legislative race at age 22. He failed again in business at age 24. He overcame the death of his girlfriend at age 26. He had a nervous breakdown at age 27. He lost a congressional race at age 34. He lost a congressional race at age 36. He lost a senatorial race at age 45. He failed in an effort to become vice-president at age 47. He lost a senatorial race at age 49. He was elected president of the United States at age 52. The man’s name was Abraham Lincoln. He would not have accomplished becoming president if he had believed that failure was something to avoid. Thomas Edison thought the same way about failure when going through his 9,999 attempts to invent the light bulb.