Yesterday I had the pleasure to go to a business conference that was sponsored by Daymond John from Shark Tank. Of all the things that I learned, it was the difference between success and defeat that kept me thinking all night long. 

You see, I though that the opposite of success was failure, but I was wrong. The opposite of success is DEFEAT.

Now let me explain you more. A few years ago I went to a violin competition. I was sure I was going to win.  But unfortunately, I did not. That was a failure, I practiced and still I failed. I was sad, mad and confuse. I was frustrated but that failure did not stop me. I started preparing even more for the next year competition and guess what, I won first place as a solo and as a duet. And not only that, I won again the year after that.

Now as you can see, I failed the first time I enter the competition, but that was not a defeated.

Failure and Defeat are not the same, when you fail you can choose to get up and do it again or you can choose to be defeated.

I was still committed to make it happen and I made it happen. I succeed but that did not happen right away, took me an extra year of preparation to accomplish that goal.

Life is real guys, and you won’t get to succeed every time you do something, if you do, then good for you. If you don’t, then realized that all you have to do is to get up and start all over gain, this time even more committed to make it happen.