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“One sip and you will find that all your endeavors succeed. At least until the effects wear off.”
Professor Horace Slughorn in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
We were watching the latest Harry Potter movie with my 8 year old son, who is a fan, when we heard about “Liquid Luck”, a magical potion that guarantees success.
I smiled and chuckled. Although the potion might not exist, the fear of failure and the fantasy of succeeding at everything we try HAS always existed.
It might not be called “liquid luck” but the search for the “magic bullet” or “quick fix” or the next big product launch that will solve all your problems and grant you everything you desire like the wave of a wand is as real as it is in fiction.
We’ve all wished for our own “liquid luck” at one point in our lives.
I’ve done it. You’ve done it.
It’s natural.
Yet, understand this.
It will NEVER get you what you want.
Why?
Simple. IT DOESN’T exist.
To really succeed you’ll have to change the belief in ANY magic “anything”.
Here’s how to do it.
CHANGE how you think about failure.
There is a quote from Eben Pagan that explains this better than I’ve ever heard.
Write this down…
“To immediately eliminate failure, learn from it.”
That is how some of the biggest flops in history have been turned into massive successes.
Like…
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Michael Jordan, after abruptly retiring from basketball to pursue a lackluster and much criticized career in baseball, learned from it and returned to basketball to lead his team to not one but three additional championships.
Or…
Apple designed a personal computer in the early 80’s called Apple Lisa at a cost of $9,995 ($21,660 today).
The result?
Apple ended up burying it’s last 2,700 Lisas in a Utah landfill in 1989.
I’d say they learned a few things and a little something called an iPod and later an iPhone have well made up for this flop. 
One more…
When Fred Smith was told his idea for an overnight delivery business was stupid or his planes were reposessed or his employees had to go to liquor stores to cash their checks to give him more time to cover the payroll, it wasn’t failure to him.
Now?
Fedex is a $37 billion dollar company.
So if I can leave you with something this year,
it’s THIS…
If you learn from failure and continue adjusting your course, it ceases to exist.
And before you know it.
You’ll arrive.
And that my friends is liquid luck that NEVER wears off.
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I’m taking the rest of the year off to celebrate Christmas, plan the coming year and focus on family.
Next year will be even bigger and better than ever and I’ll be back with you again with LOTS of great things and plans to continue to serve you.
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and like a friend says Blue Skies!
Love,
Yisel
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