What is the number one cause of failure? People always state many reasons, but what is the real cause? Is it the lack of education or information? Is it the lack of preparation or purpose? Is it the lack of motivation or money?
All of the above can play into the cause but failure is measured in other ways. It can look like a person is failing and in reality they are just in the learning stage or preparing stage. Experience produces facts that produce success.
I believe the number one cause of failure is the lack of purpose and motivation. People who have a purpose are people on a mission. They must be motivated for the right reasons to get the right results.
No one ever said life would be easy. Tough times come to everyone. During life we all must make adjustments to the times or situations, but we need to keep the purpose always before us. Tough times never last, but tough people do. They will keep going against the big difficulties and don’t give up. When others quit, they keep on.
Some of our greatest inventions or developments have come after years of what looked like failure. But, the person or persons had a vision of what they were trying to invent or develop. Where would our country be today without men like Edison, Henry Ford, Washington, Lincoln, or others who never gave up? Their lives looked like failure but they were getting experience and preparing for a time to meet a need or champion a cause. Most of the time heroes looked like failures in the beginning.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a business, marriage, or a war, people must do the right things to get the right results. To get the right results, you must do the extra things other people refuse to do. You go the extra mile or turn the other cheek. People who are successful are also wise enough to pick their battles. Why fight a battle you can’t win? This calls for wisdom.
We, in America, have the greatest opportunities of any country in the world. There is no reason why a person cannot get an education or enjoy the freedom we have for opportunities. We are not all created equal but we all have equal potential in America.
True success is finding fulfillment in what you are doing. True success is finding
fulfillment in who you are as a person. People who are fulfilled know and believe they have a purpose in life. This fulfillment provides the right motivation and the right fruit in your life.
No one is a failure who keeps trying and doesn’t quit. Failure is not final unless you give up.
Marriages or businesses fail because people give up. As a Christian, God will help us find fulfillment and purpose. God never designed people to live alone or live only for self. We are social beings with a need to love and be loved. Love is the fuel that feeds the heart and keeps us going when tough times come.
Life is for real and we only get one life, so don’t waste it. Make a difference.
Chaplain Bud
There is a serious epidemic sweeping our country and we as people, are not facing it. It’s the destruction of our marriages and homes. There are many reasons given for this, but few solutions. Because of the homes being dismantled, we are losing our children to hopelessness and abuse.
The highest divorce rate in America is among our professional people. Highly
educated and intelligent people who can run companies and corporations, but cannot live the home in love and harmony. This is the trickle down effect that will someday destroy our society and way of life.
People in law enforcement and firefighters are the hardest hit in the homes. Long hours, shift work, and the nature of their careers affects their home. Then, adding stress of danger and dealing with the low life criminal element of our society, does not help. In many cases the marriage must always come last instead of first.
The real destroyer to a marriage is time and stress. There is not enough time with the family and there is high stress in the career. And the family suffers. This happens with doctors, nurses, preachers, policemen, firemen, corporate CEOs, and the list goes on. No time and all stress will only produce a mess. When the family goes, then the career is affected also.
We have an economy that is consuming every dollar people can earn. This brings pressure on a marriage. So, the wife is taken out of the home to help make ends meet and again who suffers, the children. It costs more and more to have a home and run a home.
The stress keeps building until bad things happen to good people. They are so busy making a living that they don’t have time to make a life.
Because of all these things, the wedding vows eventually are violated. People get tired and grumpy. The blame game starts. Anger leads people to say hurting things that slowly destroys love and affections. People don’t fall out of love, they starve love to death, by neglect. Lonely or discouraged people do desperate things that produce destructive results to a marriage.
Then people ask, “where is God in all this?” He is where He always has been. God has the answers to those who seek Him. But He does not violate our will. We have a free will and make our own choices. But we cannot choose the consequences.
The home is the most important part of any society. As the home goes, so goes the country. As the home goes, so goes the communities, towns, and churches. When a nation like America, puts God out of the courtrooms and classrooms, the end is predictable. Our nation is being influenced by immoral people in Hollywood, TV, and in Washington D.C. What else can you expect from a Godless society? Since the 2nd World War, this has been slowly happening to our country.
Unless good homes and marriages again dominate our country, we will continue to produce losers. Losers at heart, life, and happiness. What say you?
Chaplain Bud,
Christian Church at Cogan Station