Achievement Thinking
(So Which One Are You, A Failure Or A Student?)
Vol 6 Issue 10
February 2014
1989 to 2014 celebrating 25 years of Wit & Wisdom
Achievement Thinking Speaker --- Laughter Dinner Speaker --- Magician
"Inspiring, unpackable
skills, humorous, easy to
understand, impactful."
Gemma Daniels
Marketing Director
Hydra Creative
Dear John
We've all seen warnings printed on products and usually they
make sense but what about these?
Box of household nails:
Do not swallow. May cause irritation.
The Impact John Has
Aerosol spray can:
Warning: Death may occur without warning!
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below and see for yourself
Garden wheelbarrow:
Not intended for highway use.
Hair dryer:
Do not use in shower. Never use while sleeping.
Iron-on patch:
Do not iron on while wearing shirt.
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John applies his
'Achievement
Thinking' system to:
Blowtorch:
Not to be used for drying hair.
Bottle of hair dye:
Do not use as ice cream topping.
Well, that's spoilt my fun. There's nothing I like more than
eating ice cream with hair dye for topping and a side dish of
mouth watering household nails while I dry my hair with a blow
torch and push my wheelbarrow along the M1 hogging the
middle lane.
Even though I jest these are genuine warnings, I promise you.
Obviously these warnings were written on the products to protect the
manufactures from being sued and my guess is someone, somewhere
at some point actually carried out these acts.
Having said that, how on earth are you going to use a hair dryer while
sleeping? Also, the warning about death occurring without warning
seems obvious (or weird) frankly I'm sure it was a well intentioned
warning, the wording just needed to be better.
Either way mistakes were made either by the manufacturers, copy
writers or the end users.
And if truth be known we ALL make mistakes from time to time, don't
we? Well, don't we? I don't know about you John but I hate it when I
get something wrong and I had a mini aha moment a while ago. Even
the most successful people we know have all made mistakes, at some
point. In other words they've all failed. Ergo (I have no idea what
'ergo' means but it makes me sound like I've had an education... of
Dealing with change
sorts) every successful person is a failure.
Doing more with less
And there M'lud I rest my case for the defence.
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The question is, what makes successful people different to everyone
else? The answer lies in they think differently to the rest of us.
Most successful people have not only failed but failed often. If
they've failed often then they've made more attempts than the rest of
us. If they've made more attempts then they've had more successes
and if they've had more successes (here comes that word again) ergo
** they're classed as successful.
I'm not going to give you any examples I'll let you find the proof
yourself.
We've all at some point decided to acquire a new skill or achieve a
goal (like losing weight or getting fit) and either gave in when things
got a little tough or we did what successful people do, we... carried
on.
Granted some successful people strike lucky and found success easily
but in the main successful people have had to 'work' at their success.
So whats the big hang up with the word 'failure'... we don't like it,
that's what. The word has baggage and suggests we're something less
than perfect. So instead of the word 'failure' let's use another word
and let that word be... 'learning' or any variation of that word.
When a successful person gets something wrong they learn from the
experience. They don't purposefully get something wrong unless they
want to test it. But they do their best to get it right and learn from
the error.
Think about something you do really well John. I bet you weren't
that good when you first started. We've had to learn to walk, ride a
bike, do our work and do a thousand and one other things and with
perseverance and by correcting what went wrong (certainly in the
early stages) we got better until you became more than just
proficient.
Sooooooooooooooooooo from now on John think of any task this way,
you can't fail. You're just... learning. If you're learning that makes
you a student at the University Of Success.
Just one thing John... no running in the corridors please.
The Sneaky Stunt - So... what is it?
Ok, so there you are in a room with three light switches. I
won't ask how you got there, that's your business and I'm not
one to judge.
The three light switches correspond to three light bulbs in
another room. Whoever designed this house needs shooting but
there you are the error has been made and you have to deal
with it. You're all alone and due to a memory lapse you don't
know which switch operates which bulb.
All three bulb and all three switches are in the 'off' position.
As you have nothing better to do and for a bit of fun you set
yourself the challenge to find out which switch operates which
bulb BUT... you're only going to allow yourself one single visit
to the room with the bulbs. Frankly, I agree, why waste time
going from room to room.
How will you know which switch corresponds to which bulb?
When you're ready and ONLY when you're ready to do so
clickerate here for the solution.
The Challenge - for a bit of fun, I challenge you to
drop this useless fact into your next conversation
The average four-year old child asks over 400 questions a day.
I bet most of them are, 'are we there yet?'
True Wit... and Wisdom - I've always admired... wit
"On a flight to Belfast, I was upgraded to business class. I was
a bit scared - I thought, will I have to play golf?"
Jeremy Hardy
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** 'Ergo': A Latin word meaning "therefore"
Ergo I was right to use it :)
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