It’s Better to Try and Fail than not Try at all - Tony Nwokolo

It’s Better to Try and Fail

Brethren, I have come to understand over the years from my mentors and from experiences that it is better to try and fail than not try at all, because even if you fail, you can pick something worthwhile and valuable from where you have fallen and then move on. At least you would have learnt one way or method that did not work and continue with other methods that might work. A wise man says, that it is not failing that matters but staying where you have fallen. This is why God’s word tells us that; A just man falls seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief - Prov. 24: 16. Whenever you fail in any venture, you should not let that weigh you down, rather pick something valuable from there and run with it; you can even start consulting or coaching others, how they can avoid the mistakes you made in order to succeed in their own project or business. In other words, you have not failed, but you have learnt one method that did not work, and you then use that experience as the yardstick to develop another method or strategy that will work.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Inc., concurred that they launched out the first Microsoft Windows Operating System with some flaws, which they corrected in the subsequent versions. The problem with some people is that they want to be perfectionist; they don’t want to make mistakes or have any flaw in their products or services and in the course of trying to make everything perfect the project or service never saw the light of the day. It is wiser to decide and launch out and thereafter keep improving and perfecting the product or service, than not to launch out all.  That is why car manufacturers for instance always come out with a latest model as a result of improving on the previous model.

It is not falling that matters but lying down where you have fallen and throwing a pity party there, that makes one a failure – Anthony C. Josephat-Nwokolo.

Whenever you find yourself over-staying at any crossroad on this journey of life, you should pause, ponder and consider the options available, and the values attached to each road and then resolve to follow the road that will add more value to your life and that of others, even if it seems longer, rough, hilly or narrow, as long as it does not contradict God’s word and His will.  And no matter how big the project seems or how far the journey seems, just decide and follow that road and The Host of Heaven would move and intervene in your favour and back you up.

Though your begin was small your later end shall be great  - Job 8:7