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1. Failing Forward
Turning Mistakes into
stepping stones for Success
By John C. Maxwell
A Special Report by Nerie V. Lopez
MBA Standard-Ateneo Graduate School of Business

2. THE Author

3. The BIG Idea:
Steps to Failing Forward
• There is one major difference
between the average people and
achievers
• Redefine Failure
• Remove the “you” from Failure
• Take action and Reduce your fear
• Change your response to failure,
accept responsibility

4. The BIG Idea:
Steps to Failing Forward
• Don’t let failure from outside get
inside you
• Say goodbye to yesterday
• Change yourself, and your world
changes
• Get over yourself and start giving
yourself
• Find the benefit in every bad
experience

5. The BIG Idea:
Steps to Failing Forward
• If at first, you do succeed, try
something harder
• Learn from a bad experience and
make it a good experience
• Work on the weakness that
weakens you
• There’s not much difference
between failure and success
• Get up, get over it, get going

6. The Difference between
average people and achievers
“People’s perception
of and response
to failure.”

7. The Difference between
average people and achievers
• 1 billion dollars annual sales
• 3,500 employees
• 500,000 direct-sales consultant

8. Redefining Failure
• Failure is unavoidable
• Failure is not an event
• Failure is not objective
• Failure is not irreversible
• Failure is not final

9. Remove the “you” from Failure
Fear of failure stops forward progress
• Paralysis
• Procrastination
• Purposelessness

10. Take action and
reduce your fear

11. Change your response to Failure
People’s common reaction to failure:
• They are angry
• They cover up mistakes
• They speed up
• They back up
• They give up

12. Don’t let failure from outside
get inside you
• Failure is an inside job
• Start cultivating the right attitude
Contentment is not:
• Containing your emotions
• Maintaining your current situation
• Power or money

13. Say goodbye to yesterday
Signs of being held hostage by
their past:
•Comparison
•Rationalization
•Isolation
•Regret
•Bitterness

14. Change yourself,
and your world changes
The process of change and looking
at your mistakes:
•See yourself clearly
•Admit your flaws honestly
•Discover your strengths joyfully
•Build on those strengths
passionately

15. Get over yourself and
start giving yourself
How to add value to others:
• Put others first
• Find out what others need
• Meet the needs of others with
excellence and generosity

16. Find the Benefit in every
bad experience
Benefits of adversity:
• It creates resilience
• It develops maturity
• It pushes future performance
• It provides greater opportunities
• It prompts innovation
• It motivates

17. Take a risk, there’s no
other way to fail forward

18. Work on the weaknesses
that weakens you
Top 10 reasons why people fail:
1.Poor people skills
2.A negative attitude
3.A bad fit
4.Lack of focus
5.A weak commitment

19. Work on the weaknesses
that weakens you
Top 10 reasons why people fail:
6. Unwillingness to change
7. A short-cut mindset
8. Relying on talent alone
9. Poor information gathering
10. An absence of goal

20. There is not much difference
between success and failure
Four-point plan for approaching
achievement:
•Find a purpose
•Eliminate excuses
•Develop incentives
•Cultivate determination

21. Get up, Get over it, Get going
FORWARD!!!
Finalize your goal
Order your plan
Risk failing by taking action
Welcome mistakes
Advance based on your character
Re-evaluate your progress continually
Develop new strategies to succeed