A Brief Post About Failure and Success

Do not be afraid of failure. We learn from failure and mistakes. 

Many people in my country try various things before they are successful. They fail, and then they rise again. Often they go to colleges and universities and they cannot find careers in their chosen field. Instead of giving up, doing nothing, or blaming someone else, they plan for and seek a career in other areas.  Many have had various career positions in a lifetime. Take the example of Dmitry Orlov who is originally from Russia and is an American citizen. Orlov started his career as an engineer. Now he is a professional blogger (his blog Club Orlov), an author and lecturer who is into living a sustainable lifestyle. During the collapse of the Soviet Union he said one of the ways the Russian people survived is because they took their hobbies or little side jobs and they turned them into extra sources of income. For example, If they liked sewing, they used their sewing machine to make money. 

To be successful you have to be flexible, work hard, be reliable, be unfraid of failure, be creative, and invite change. Sometimes the most difficult act of all in overcominf failure is to remove the lazy, unmotivated, average people many of us surround ourselves with.  The humans nearest to us, family and friends, can often be the ones to hold us back more than anything, and after them follow our own thoughts.  

Failure is not a death sentence, and it shouldn't destroy one's ego. We have to overcome the ego. In Sufism it's called "nafs"; in Christianity "pride". Too much of it ultimately results in failure. 

Failure itself is a lesson. You either stop and die in it or you learn from it and then move forward to the prize.