Reproduced with permission of the author. Charles Marcus is an international motivational speaker. For more information on Charles, please visit his website at www.cmarcus.com. Copyright 2007-2011. All rights worldwide reserved.
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January – the start of a fresh new year. This is a wonderful time to take stock and reflect on the year gone by, the triumphs you achieved, the times you shared with family and friends, the good choices you made in business. But in order to grow and develop both personally and professionally, you also have to look back at and acknowledge the things that challenged you, the things that did not go so well.
There is nothing wrong with setbacks, in fact, I believe that if we don’t have obstacles to overcome along the way we won’t learn and grow. Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, once said, “If you want to increase your rate of success, you better be prepared to increase your rate of failure.”
Everybody knows about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, two boys in their 20’s who chose to leave promising careers with computer gaming innovator, Atari, to take a risk to start Apple. Few, however, are as familiar with the 40 year old who also left Atari for Apple, to play the role of the maturer and responsible business partner to the innovators.
