We all have fallen or will fall at some point in time in our life. There are many circumstances and situations that can and will cause a person to fall, lose their status, dignity or character in their life. Though, if you fall you do not have to stay down, get up, do not let your fall, failures or lack of success keep you down. Use those negative circumstances to your advantage; turn your failures into successes.

There have been many successful people that have fallen or come short of success just before they made that big break or achieve what they had set out to accomplish. Success without failure is really not worth the achievement. You really can not appreciate the attainment of your successes if you have not first had a taste of failures and disappointments. If you do not go through the wilderness to get to the promise land, how can you really enjoy all the promise land has to offer you? If you never plummet while going up the ladder of success, make a wrong turn while traveling the road to victory, how can you really be grateful for what you achieve in the end.

If great inventors like Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin and Garrett A. Morgan had given up after their first failure, where would we be today? These men continue to do research, experiment, discovered and achieve what they had set out to do, contrary to their many fail attempts. All of the research, discoveries and inventions of these three men are still very important to our world today. Like these great men if you fall, or do not at first succeed, get up and try again. Think positive, stay focus and continue to achieve your dreams or goals you have planned for yourself. Without a plan to succeed, you have planned to fail.

Failure is only temporary, if after you have fallen, you get up. If you stay down, lie down and choose not to continue, then and only then have you given up. Having fallen is not a sign of weakness, but not getting up makes you weak. Like little babies when they are first learning to walk, they fall down, but then they get up and fall down again. After many times of falling, they eventually learning how to walk and discover how easy it is to walk. This is not to say they will never fall again. They have learned when they fall not to stay down, but get up. As we have gotten older we have come to understand that to fall does not mean to quit.

When we fall, as long as we get up, then everything will be OK. Getting up shows you can and will continue on not matter what. Getting up means you know you can achieve the goals you have set for yourself. Getting up shows you are a winner and not a quitter. You may have failed; you may have not reached your goal yet. You may have fallen, but get up!

Kevin J Houston
"Motivating and Encouraging People For Life"

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