Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

John C. Maxwell

Apr 2007 · Sold by HarperCollins Leadership

About this ebook

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!

Ratings and reviews

I have never read any book, nor heard anybody share how to prepare for failure until now. One of the challenges we face today is we mindset ourselves and our family to be the best, yet forget to equip them with the reality that success can only be identified after many failures. Dr.John maxwell really makes us realize there is so much potential in us after we get tried and tested through fire. Test comes before testimony.

This book has catalyzed me into becoming the most successful person I can be in this life. J. Maxwell gives the reader a 360° revolutionary turn on perception of failure and value that which most people show disgust to. This kind of discipline is key to climbing the ladder of success. Indeed a treasure for one's bookshelf!

I absolutely enjoy this book. It is worth reading again and again - just in case you forget certain principles. I have found myself to being more optimistic than pessimistic as I was in my past - which I now embrace with a smile.

About the author

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.