실패의 공식, 성공도

실패는 단순한 하나의 대격동이 아니다. 하룻밤에 실패하는 경우는 없다. 실패는 빈약한 사고, 초라한

선택들이 장시간에 걸쳐 누적되어 일어나는 불가피한 결코 피할 수 없는 그 결과이다. 좀더 쉽게 말한다면

판단의 잘못실수들이 매일의 생활에서 반복되어 일어나는 것일 뿐이다. 그러면 왜 그런 잘못이나 실수를

매일 같이 반복하고 있을까.

그런 잘못실수가 아무 것도 아닌 사소한 것으로만 여기기 때문이다. 여기에 무서운 함정이 있다.

내 고종 사촌 형은 키 178에 서양인을 능가하는 엄청난 코에 정말 멋진 사내이었다. 물론 옛날 얘기다. 그의

집이 신천동 대로변에서 식당을 했다. 그러니 그 시절의 극장들이 식당 문에 포스터를 부치면서 극장 입장권을

주었다. 그는 그 포스터를 밤낮 보고 살았고 영화란 영화는 돈 극장에 관계 없이 매일 다녔다. 한 참의 시간이

흐르고 대학을 다닐 때 들린 소문으로 왠 과부와 살림을 산다고 들리더니 어느 날 흔적도 소식도 없어 사라져

버렸다. 모르겠다 지금쯤 어느 노숙자와 함께 젊은날을 후회하고 있을지.

일상에서 자그마한 잘못이나 실수가 아무런 의미도 없는 것같이 보이고 또 중요해 보이기때문에 그런 실수잘못

들을 거듭거듭 반복하게 된다. 지난 90일 동안 한권의 책도 읽지 아니했다. 이로 인해 교육의 부족이라든가

어떤 불편이나 생활에 애로를 전혀 느끼지 아니했었다. 그러니 그 후 90일도 그냥 또 90일도 그냥, 이런 판단의

잘못이 계속 반복 된다. 정크 푸드, 패스터 푸드, 야동 이런 것들 당장에 아무런 해를 미치지않고 오히려 더욱

신나고 재미난다. 그러나 이런 반복되는 재미는 쾌락을 맛보는 그 순간순간마다 미래의 결과에 조금씩 조금씩

어두운 그림자를 드리워 나간다. 늑대소년을 아닌가? 아무런 해를 주지 않는다고 조금씩 하나씩 쬐끔 더해가는

거짓말은 내 미래 꿈에 자그마한 상채기와 흠집을 내기 시작한다. 여러 차레 부모의 주의에도 불구하고 불에

손을 덴 아이는 다시는 불에 손을 아니덴다. 우리의 일상의 잘못이나 실수에 하늘이 머리를 부순다면 다시는

그런 잘못실수는 안할것이다. 유감스럽게도 우리네 잘못이나 실수는 아무런 고함도 저항도 아니 한다.

그러나실패는 이런 작고 하찮고 별의미가 없고 중요하지도 않다고 생각하는 것들의 절대적인 공헌에서부터

비롯된다. 잘못이나 실수에대한 댓가를 지불하기까지는 결과는 가만히 천역덕스럽게 가만히 있는다. 실패의

공식이 이처럼 어이없는 데 있다면 성공의 공식 역시도 아주 쉽다.

건강을 위해 정크 패스트 푸드를 먹지 않으면 된다. 쉽지 않다구요. 물론이죠. 일단 정크 푸드를 안먹으므로

형성되어질 나의 멋진 건강한 스타일을 그려보세요. 목표를, 분명한 미래를, 뚜렷한 장래의 그림을 가져야만

반복되는 잘못실수를 성공의 인자로 변화시킬 수 있습니다. 인간의 힘은 분명하고도 확실한 목표를 가질 때

불쑥불쑥 솟아 납니다, 더욱 인간의 두뇌는 목적지향적이지요. 분명한 내 미래의 확실한 그림이 있을 때 내

두뇌는 이 그림을 완성할려고 필요한 모든 조치를 하나하나 착착 진행시켜나가지요. 몇줄의 책를 통해 날마다

긍정적인, 창의적인, 동기유발적인 열정의 삶을 지탱 유지 발굴 실천해 나갈 수 있습니다.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as to repeat it every day? The answer is because he or she does not think that it matters. On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important. A minor oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted hour generally doesn't result in an instant and measurable impact. More often than not, we escape from any immediate consequences of our deeds.

If we have not bothered to read a single book in the past ninety days, this lack of discipline does not seem to have any immediate impact on our lives. And since nothing drastic happened to us after the first ninety days, we repeat this error in judgment for another ninety days, and on and on it goes. Why? Because it doesn't seem to matter. And herein lies the great danger. Far worse than not reading the books is not even realizing that it matters! Those who eat too many of the wrong foods are contributing to a future health problem, but the joy of the moment overshadows the consequence of the future. It does not seem to matter. Those who smoke too much or drink too much go on making these poor choices year after year after year... because it doesn't seem to matter. But the pain and regret of these errors in judgment have only been delayed for a future time. Consequences are seldom instant; instead, they accumulate until the inevitable day of reckoning finally arrives and the price must be paid for our poor choices - choices that didn't seem to matter.

Failure's most dangerous attribute is its subtlety. In the short term those little errors don't seem to make any difference. We do not seem to be failing. In fact, sometimes these accumulated errors in judgment occur throughout a period of great joy and prosperity in our lives. Since nothing terrible happens to us, since there are no instant consequences to capture our attention, we simply drift from one day to the next, repeating the errors, thinking the wrong thoughts, listening to the wrong voices and making the wrong choices. The sky did not fall in on us yesterday; therefore the act was probably harmless. Since it seemed to have no measurable consequence, it is probably safe to repeat.

But we must become better educated than that!

If at the end of the day when we made our first error in judgment the sky had fallen in on us, we undoubtedly would have taken immediate steps to ensure that the act would never be repeated again. Like the child who places his hand on a hot burner despite his parents' warnings, we would have had an instantaneous experience accompanying our error in judgment. Unfortunately, failure does not shout out its warnings as our parents once did. This is why it is imperative to refine our philosophy in order to be able to make better choices. With a powerful, personal philosophy guiding our every step, we become more aware of our errors in judgment and more aware that each error really does matter.

To Your Success,now here is the great news. Just like the formula for failure, the formula for success is easy to follow: It's a few simple disciplines practiced every day. Now here is an interesting question worth pondering: How can we change the errors in the formula for failure into the disciplines required in the formula for success? The answer is by making the future an important part of our current philosophy. Both success and failure involve future consequences, namely the inevitable rewards or unavoidable regrets resulting from past activities. If this is true, why don't more people take time to ponder the future? The answer is simple: They are so caught up in the current moment that it doesn't seem to matter. The problems and the rewards of today are so absorbing to some human beings that they never pause long enough to think about tomorrow. But what if we did develop a new discipline to take just a few minutes every day to look a little further down the road? We would then be able to foresee the impending consequences of our current conduct. Armed with that valuable information, we would be able to take the necessary action to change our errors into new success-oriented disciplines. In other words, by disciplining
ourselves to see the future in advance, we would be able to change our thinking, amend our errors and develop new habits to replace the old.

One of the exciting things about the formula for success - a few simple disciplines practiced every day - is that the results are almost immediate. As we voluntarily change daily errors into daily disciplines, we experience positive results in a very short period of time. When we change our diet, our health improves noticeably in just a few weeks. When we start exercising, we feel a new vitality almost immediately. When we begin reading, we experience a growing awareness and a new level of self-confidence. Whatever new discipline we begin to practice daily will produce exciting results that will drive us to become even better at developing new disciplines.

The real magic of new disciplines is that they will cause us to amend our thinking. If we were to start today to read the books, keep a journal, attend the classes, listen more and observe more, then today would be the first day of a new life leading to a better future. If we were to start today to try harder, and in every way make a conscious and consistent effort to change subtle and deadly errors into constructive and rewarding disciplines, we would never again settle for a life of existence – not once we have tasted the fruits of a life of substance!