How to Fail Your Way to Success in Network Marketing

"The formula for success is quite simple: double your rate of failure." Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (founder of IBM)

Have you ever failed in MLM or Network Marketing?

Watson's quote should and take an incredible burden off our shoulders and make us jump for joy. We should all be shouting, "I can do that!" "That" being fail. After all, most of us spend a good deal of our mental, physical, and spiritual energy doing all we can to avoid failing. That being the case, logic tells us that it should be a piece of cake to fail.

You know, it's interesting to reflect on the question about whether or not the failure of the moment is the end of the world/project/etc. Isn't the answer always our own choice? We can choose to quit and not try anymore, in which case it is indeed the end of whatever. Or, we can choose to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and try again while making adjustments to avoid the trap that we fell into last time.

Have you not heard that most millionaiares were all bankrupt one or more times? What if they had "thrown in the towel?"

How does a baby learn to walk? How does a child learn to ride a bicycle? Where did this warped fear of failure that we adults seem to have acquired come from? Henry Ford once said, "Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."

Ever heard the macho comment, "Failure is not an option?" If one carries that philosophy too far, chances are they will never try in the first place. Where does that take you?

What if Babe Ruth, the league leader in strikeouts held to that view? What if Abraham Lincoln, who almost set records for the number of lost elections held that view?

Then there's Thomas Edison who failed thousands of time in his quest of the light bulb who said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." What an attitude! That's it!!! How we view failure is an attitude! Attitude is something that is in our control. We're not a victim%u2026we're in control.

Happy failures!