Failing Forward – A Matter of Mindset

Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, once said, “People fail forward to success.”
And it really is true. You will make mistakes along the way to your success.
And it is your attitude toward your failures that will determine your eventual success … or not. Ralph Waldo Trine had this to say on the [...]

Failing Your Way To Success

To double your success rate, you must double your failure rate.
— Thomas Edison

My sister, Maureen, an aspiring children’s writer, giggles with glee any time a rejection letter lands in her mailbox. I was at her house one day and witnessed her reaction, which puzzled me.
She’d been sending out sporadic queries to children’s publishers for [...]