With the new calendar year now in full swing, how are you travelling in terms of the progress towards your 2015 goals and objectives? Are you starting to tick off small wins on the list you created in late 2014, or are you already starting to experience challenges, and dare I say it, experiencing failure already? If you are starting to experience failure, that is actually a good thing, contrary to what you may think. In fact, nothing worth achieving, will come easily – it will take work, it will take focus, and it will take persistence. Actually, success will reveal itself only through a series of failures! Now you may be sitting there thinking ‘what is this person on about?’, but stay with me – history is filled with successful people who created great movements, built strong companies, built powerful governments and achieved great outcomes, on the back of failure, and for many of them, many failures.

One of the most famous ‘failures’ is a man who lived during the 1800’s and in reading the following biographical timeline, you may know who this man is : Continue Reading