Why We Fail.

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"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Everyone likes to talk about the secrets to success. Well -They are hardly secrets - but that's another column. But why do we fail at any goal, objective or task in life? Failure as everyone knows is a critical ingredient to success. We need to fail, fall short, and keep getting up again to achieve anything worthwhile - that's one of life's basic rules. But why do we fail? The real answers are we were:

• Too Lazy - we didn't work hard enough.

• Too Stupid - we didn't learn from others who succeed.

• Too Weak - we didn't have the drive to do what it takes.

So there it is - every self improvement book on the planet condensed into three bullet points. What's the good news? We can do something about every single one of them - We Can Get Better as long as we accept the very basic premise. It is and always was us.