Life has knocked me down a few times. It showed me things that I never wanted to see. I experienced sadness and failures. But, one thing for sure, I always get up.

Life has knocked me down a few times. It showed me things that I never wanted to see. I experienced sadness and failures. But, one thing for sure, I always get up.

What is the single biggest thing that you have learned from one of your failures?

We are very quick to tout our successes and espouse on how each and every one of them made us whom we are today, but we are far less likely to dispel the truth about each and every one of our failures, and how or why they have helped to create that which we have evolved into.

When we look back with perspective, we would be surprised to recognize how each of these, both good and bad, have been highly instrumental in the evolution of our whom we truly are.

When we learn from our mishaps, we are perhaps, even more ready for our success than we might have been, had this have not have happened.

The understanding that without darkness, the stars would not shine is so imperative to our core being as to warrant the complete understanding that it is through our evolutions, that our resolve strengthens, our perspective sharpens, and our determination increases.

Our desire to succeed catapults us through countless chapters of disparate circumstances, each of which is bringing another piece of the larger puzzle to our attention, and collectively, allowing us to mature, improve, and ultimately succeed.

When you are facing the mishaps of a perceived failure, you cannot lose sight of the fact that it is imperative, to fail forward.

Fall down seven times get up eight.

Happy Wednesday!

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Written by Brian Weiner
When I was 5 years old, I discovered that the lemon tree in the backyard + dixie cups + water and sugar and I was in business. I have been hooked on that ever since. In 1979, I borrowed $14,000 to create a brand new product... photographic greeting cards with no text on the inside, called Paradise Photography. That was the start of The Illusion Factory. Since then, The Illusion Factory has been entrusted by all of the major studios and broadcasters with the advertising and marketing of over $7 billion in filmed, live, broadcast, gaming, AR, VR and regulated gaming forms of entertainment, generating more than $100 Billion in revenue and 265 awards for creativity and technology for our clients. When I took a break from film school at UCLA to move to Hawaii, my mother did not lecture me. Instead, she took 150 of her favorite aphorisms and in her beautiful calligraphy, wrote them artistically throughout a blank journal. That is the origin of the Lessons from the Mountain series. Since then, on my journeys to the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise, I have spent countless hours contemplating words of wisdom from the sages of all races, genders and political persuasions, constantly accumulating the thoughts to guide me on my life path. I hope you enjoy my books. Please let me know your thoughts, as I highly value your feedback!