Winning Through Failure

I’ve had many business enterprises in the past, most have failed!

There’s such a stigma in about failing in business especially in the country I happened to fail in, England - the British love losers, but for some strange reason not losers in business ... "How dare you fail, what a disgrace, what a rotter!"

Remember, The Machine needs as many little cogs to turn as possible, if you’re not a cog you’re not under control ... As a Cash Club member you are most definitely not under control!

I truly believe that failing is all part of winning and that, ‘if you fail once you’re a failure for life’ is a myth perpetuated by The Machine to ensure you to give up at the first hurdle.

In my most humble of opinions I believe that failing is collateral damage, an unavoidable element of the success formula ... You absolutely can not scale the success mountain without dislodging a few lose boulders.

Now, I’m not saying that you should plan to fail a few times in order to learn from your mistakes, hell no. You always need to do your very best, but if in doing that your best isn’t good enough, then analyze what went wrong.

Harvard in America actually teach business pupils that it’s ok to fail, just so long as you learn from those mistakes and don’t repeat them - a stark contrast to attitudes in general.

I don’t know what it’s like in other countries but if you get it wrong in England be prepared for a battle. Your name is put on a national register for failures, your reputation is muddied, your whole life is tarnished: "We’ll do our utmost to ensure you are suitably punished as a failure - no bank accounts for you, no mortgage for you, no place for you in this perfect Nirvana of ours - be gone you leper."

All this is perpetrated under the guise of 'protecting the innocent' - reality is that there are casualties in business. The odds against any venture lasting more than 3 years are phenomenal.

You try; you try your very best. You do your research, make your plans, set out with the best intentions and continue to work more hours than is healthy. You don’t set up and put in all that effort with the purpose of hurting others. No! You set up to do your very best and make a success of things - unfortunately your best just wasn’t good enough on that occasion and you fail!!!

But that DOES NOT mean you are a failure for life.

The fact is that The Machine would rather most people were employed by a few policeable companies. You see, if we're all employed then we're easier to control. We have a job that pays the bills and are taxed and bled at source. The self employed are harder to control as they have far more opportunities to avoid the extortionate taxes and levies.

Here's the paradox: we live in a democracy that allows individuals the opportunity to break free ... and the last thing The Machine wants is lots of people running around out of control. So, this is why I believe we are subtlety indoctrinated from an early age that a job is good, a job is for life.

Oh yes, you're given the choice to go it alone but so many obstacles are placed in your path you're surely going to fail ... and go back to being a good little cog you go.

You step out of line; you step out of the perceived security of employment, you venture out and crash headlong into surf. Wave upon wave upon relentless wave of obstruction, barriers and impediment batter you.

The Machine doesn’t care if you've given everything humanly possible to become self sufficient, to make something of your life, to break free ... You were born a cog, educated to be a cog and you're damn well going to be a cog for life if The Machine has its way!

The Machine is compassionless, cold, emotionless - the dark nemesis of those whose only crime is to want to carve out a life they can be proud of. Yet bizarrely, The Machine will support you and give you a house or sheltered accommodation if you wish to deal in drugs and spend your nights helping yourself to other people’s hard earned property ... because 'social responsibility' wins votes!

It seems that the less you are prepared to do for yourself, then the more The Machine is prepared to give. It seems that those who contribute the least take the lion's share ... and those who contribute the most are taken for anything and everything they work so hard for???

The hardest workers, highest earners, most highly taxed!

Sorry, went off on a tangent there ... The Machine doesn’t care if your best will be good enough next time; you won’t get that chance if it can possibly coordinate it.

But you are going to build a life of your own and The Machine's not going to have its way is it?

You don’t care what they try to do to you; you won’t be stopped will you?

Just because it is better for The Machine if you are a cog, and it will do everything in it’s power to keep you there, you won’t slot in and take it.

NO! YOU ARE A COCKROACH ...

... and more than capable of surviving anything that they can throw at you. Every time you fail you'll come back bigger, stronger and above all, WISER.

I failed many times ...

I’d like to say my catering business: Butties World Famous Sandwiches, failed because the local authority imposed too many ridiculous rules and regulations, because the council ripped me off with business rates (taxes) and rubbish/trash disposal taxes, and charges to park outside my own premises. The rents were too high, the new out-of-town superstore took 30% of my customers away ...

I’d like to say The Upsidedown Flying Crocodile Bar, a pub business of mine failed because of the intimidation by local drug dealers who ran a protection racket; dealers who were being supported by The Machine which in turn was funded by my extortionate tax payments.

Thanks to the the welfare state it was their 'right' to claim free houses to deal from. It was their privilege to claim cash to fund their activities. Government cash paid their bills, government cash provided them the freedom to drink in my bar and the opportunity to 'try' to milk me of the money I was generating and paying taxes on; taxes which were then handed back out by The Machine to people like them ...

I’d like to blame the police who refused to do anything about the dirty, stinking filth for fear of starting a riot (which they frequently did!!!).

I’d like to blame my failures on all the above, and more, but it simply wouldn’t be true.

The businesses failed because I failed them ... the same way a million entrepreneurs have failed a million businesses in the past.

You have to fail in order to succeed - why?

Because how in the reign of Charlie Parker are you going to discover what works and what doesn’t???

You could come up with a great idea, do some very basic research, set up your very first business, be lucky and enjoy a superb run for a few years. You could feel quite justified in looking down from your glass tower on all the companies who were failing around you and say: "ha, you peasants look at me, I’m so successful, just look at my wonderful company, don’t you all wish you had one too?"

Well, the sad truth is this does happen - a lot!!!

Luck plays her hand and casts her magic on a chosen few - but, inevitably luck always runs out like sand in an hourglass. When it does you’ll find you really had no clue as to why you were successful; you had no idea what made the company work and when the creditors are standing below throwing rocks at your glazed penthouse office you’ll see that what you’d actually built was a house of cards. A slight jolt and the lot came tumbling down.

You had never worked out what held the company together, you never inspected the nuts and bolts. You’d never failed in the past so when the fabric of your success wore thin you never saw through it, and didn’t maneuver into a better position. You didn’t even see it coming - but next time will be different won’t it?

You are in rather a unique position now regardless
of your past experiences and experience.

The businesses set out in System Ultra K, have all taken their toll on intrepid adventurers. Pioneers have blazed a trail and in their wake is carnage. Entrepreneurs have failed, learned from their mistakes, refined their approach, tried again and failed again.

Other people have done most of the failing for you.

I’m not saying the systems I am going to introduce you to in System Ultra K are perfect, far from it, but many mistakes have already been made and many lessons have been learned - the important ones anyway!!!

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