Welcome to the blog of Pastor Alton Stone, from Simpsonville, SC. Pastor Stone is a retired Ordained Bishop of The Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee with over 45 years of pastoral ministry.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Learn from Your Mistakes

Everyone fails at certain goals. 

That doesn’t mean you’re a failure. The path to success normally includes failures along the way. Accept a failure as a learning opportunity. Perhaps you just need to try again with a different approach. Or maybe you’re having an internal struggle that you need help with. It takes humility and courage to learn from your mistakes and to ask for help. So if that’s what you need to do then do it with your head held high. Just remember these folks:

-Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. He was defeated in every public office role he ran for.
-Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."

-Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

-Albert Einstein didn't speak until age four and didn't read until age seven. His teachers labeled him "slow" and "mentally handicapped."

-After his first film, Harrison Ford underwhelmed the producer and was told he would probably never succeed.
-Dr. Seuss' first book was rejected by 27 different publishers.

-Henry Ford's first auto company went out of business.

Don't let mistakes from yesterday slow you down. Press on!

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