How do you feel about the things that you started not being successful?

Does it drag you down or does it drive you to do better?

If it drags you down, you need to re-evaluate how you view life. I say that because if you are dragged down by failure, you need to realize that life is not one big success story. There are ups and downs to all aspects of life.

Let me tell you a real life story of Stewart Butterfield. If you do not know him, he is a Vancouver B.C. entrepreneur. If that doesn’t help you, he was the co-creator of Flickr (the photo-sharing site that he sold to Yahoo for 50 million dollars).

What you may not know is that Flickr was an unplanned start-up company. It is my understanding that Flickr was created from a highly innovative interactive game that was challenged right from the beginning. The front-end development was six months ahead of back-end development and the company was not going to be able to ship the product. Then they ran out of money. As a last-ditch effort they made a chat interface in which you could drag and drop photos into it. And it wasn’t immediately successful.

If there is one message from this, it is that you have to take action and then see what happens.

So the next time you think something has become a failure; ask your self these questions;

• What more can I do with this?
• What can I tweak that will improve this?