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    Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
    Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
    Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
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    Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

    Written by John Maxwell

    Narrated by John Maxwell

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    Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? What is the real reason for their success? John C. Maxwell has the answer: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

    Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Bestselling author John C. Maxwell says that if you are like him, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. However, he has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.

    Maxwell takes a closer look at failure and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone.

    In Failing Forward, Maxwell will show you:

    • the key main reasons people fail,
    • how to master fear instead of being mastered by it,
    • and positive benefits can accompany negative experiences.

    Filled with action suggestions and real-life stores, Failing Forward is a strategic guide that will help you move beyond mistakes to fulfill your potential and achieve success.

    Discover how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway. In life, the question is not?if?you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them? Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Leadership
    Release dateJun 29, 2009
    ISBN9781418574918
    Author

    John Maxwell

    John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to  train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic, wonderful book! It was the book a month at our church cornerstone Christian Church of God. Amazing book related with this month. It helps me to be a better man and husband to my wife
    • 5/5
      Best book!! I added to my fav list. Highly recommended
    • 5/5
      Great book, glad I read the book. I will like to read it again.
    • 5/5
      Classic Maxwell, and insightful into how to respond to failure.
    • 5/5
      It was simple and awesome book with small chapters. It gave me a different perspective on how to see failure and suggesting to always fail forward with examples are inspiring. I highly recommend this short book from John Maxwell
    • 5/5
      Another Solid book by mawwell. Easy read and straight the point. He give a bunch of different examples and lists of what to look for to fail forward and put your self in a place to succeed
    • 5/5
      I so much love this book/ audiobook! I am a very determined, or should I say stubborn, individual. I have been through a lot. And this book inspires me to go for more! Thank u Sir John!
    • 5/5
      Excellent
      I read the book and listened to the audiobook book several times
    • 5/5
      Very inspirational and life-changing. The book will motivate you to embrace risk positively.
    • 5/5
      Good read and worth a listen. Always encouraged by John Maxwell
    • 5/5
      Game changer! John Maxwell is one of my favorite authors, always gives such powerful lessons and guidance! Love his real life stories. I always read his books with his voice in my mind, so was thrilled with this reading sounding so much like John's soothing voice!
    • 5/5
      Eye opening, heart opening, soul opening, life-changing: if you actually take the time to listen/read, learn, apply, and repeat.
    • 5/5
      Insightful and helpful. Inspired to work on myself over the next couple of weeks.
    • 5/5
      Clear, concise, understandable, and completely worthwhile. I would recommend this book to anyone.
    • 5/5
      Wow, what an amazing book. Fear of failure paralizes me into non-action; this helped me put things into perspective. I now look at failure in a different way. A more positive way.
    • 5/5
      It is a truly an inspiring book, which deserves a second and third listen. It is dense with life altering strategies that will help for years to come. It’s an experience I recommend. Please put the book to the test. I know I will.
    • 5/5
      I am definitely going to read it right now. It's important to go over it again.
    • 5/5
      To succeed, you have to be open to problems. You have to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems. Great inspiring book,
    • 4/5
      A good book with nice insights. Inspirational. However, I find that is is lacking actual actionable steps on the *how* of doing the items outlines, ie. "get motivation - get yourself up in the morning..." --- yes, but *how*!
    • 5/5
      whole new perspective on what failure means to me. definitely worth your time.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book, audio keep me interested, simply encouraging from cover to cover
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed reading the book. Very practical and inspiring.
    • 5/5
      Timeless practical wisdom! Why did I wait so long to read it? :)
    • 5/5
      Great book! Finished listening to audio in day. Failure feels bad but if you learn from it, nothing will scare you.
    • 5/5
      Listen to this book! If you are a person focus on making yourself better, then I highly encourage you to spend some time taking in the knowledge and advice given in this book. Although only two hours in length, there is a lot of information packed into these two hours. I'm always concerned about taking the right notes when I listen to an audiobook, but the narrator of this book did an excellent job with identifying quotes, bullet points, and even sub bullet points. I've always enjoyed reading books from John Maxwell, and this book is definitely going to be added to my recommended list for other people to read in efforts to better themselves.
    • 5/5
      Life changing!
      This book is absolutely wonderful! Thank you for it!
    • 5/5
      Hands-down one of the best books about improving yourself improve your life and improving your world
    • 3/5
      Don't get me wrong. Maxwell's book contains a wealth of helpful information. But the fact is, very little of the material was new to me. That's probably because I've read dozens of books that focus on achieving success and coping with setbacks. "Failing Forward" served as more of a reminder about some of the lynchpins of success. The biggest takeaway, of course, involves the reality that success hinges more on how we play our proverbial cards and less about the cards we're dealt. The book includes dozens of enlightening anecdotes that reinforce Maxwell's themes -- a few too many anecdotes for my liking. My recommendation: if you've only read a few books that focus on success strategies, this tome will be insightful.
    • 4/5
      Some of my favorite quotes:
      “People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival.” J. Wallace Hamilton
      “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.“ Thomas A. Edison
      To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a part of your life. If you are not failing, you are probably not moving forward.
      “Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” Jim Rohn
      “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin
      “Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.” Larry Osborne
    • 5/5
      Outstanding book on overcoming adversity. A must read.