It ain't over!

Wed, Jul 9th 2014, 09:53 AM

There's a well-known saying that many use over and over again and that phrase is "It ain't over till it's over". This phrase is attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra. Lenny Kravitz also wrote and recorded a song with that same title, and Marlo Thomas wrote a book with the title "It Ain't Over ... Till It's Over" which was published by Simon & Schuster. So one might say, what exactly does that popular phrase mean, especially as it relates to me, and my life? Well what it means, in my opinion is this. Just because you or your business failed, does in no way mean, that your life or the life of your business is over. You see, what I'm really trying to get at is this. Failure is an integral part of the growth process of life. That's right; failure is not the end of the road for anyone -- that is unless you actually accept it as such. Failure is just a learning experience, finding out what doesn't work.
For example, when (Thomas) Edison was asked by a group of reporters one day how he dealt with the fact that he had failed 10,000 times in his efforts to perfect the electric light bulb, he promptly replied "I didn't fail, I just discovered 10,000 ways in which it would not work". Boy oh boy, what a simply great attitude to have toward temporary failure. This my friend, is the kind of attitude which we should all develop as we travel the road of life with its many setbacks. In short, the only way in which to fail in life is to completely give up and thus throw in the towel, figuratively speaking.
Yes my friend, take heart here today for I'm sure you now realize, that in spite of your repeated failures, you can indeed still go on to put in a winning performance, an outstanding, academy award performance. Why? Because as today's title puts it, it ain't over till it's over. Let me assure you, if you've failed at something, you've just hit a bump in the road, so to speak, but you can indeed continue your journey, provided you don't give up prematurely.
To me, it's very sad to observe so many who actually give up on their dreams when success is literally just around the very next corner. So please remember today's most important lesson, it ain't over till it's over. That is of course, unless you give up!
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