Thursday, May 13, 2010

FAILURE; THE ROUTE TO SUCCESSFUL FILMMAKING

Failure is indeed the route to success.
Yes, fail as many times as it takes you to know how not to, and discover success. The secret is your ability to know what you did wrong when you failed, know what changes to make and then go ahead and try again and again until you get it right. Have you seen a child trying to walk for the first time? Can you count the number of times the child fell; failed before eventually mastering the act of walking? Imagine you have a child that is old enough to walk, tries walking once, and falls so badly and refuses ever to try again. Imagine millions of babies like that. Wouldn’t the world be filled with babies who could have walked but are cripples for lack of trying?
Please picture this very clearly, think upon it, before you continue reading. How do you feel? What you feel won’t be very different from what your creator feels when you are afraid of going out there to make something of your life. As a Filmmaker Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. The greatest calamity is not to have failed, but to have failed to try. To all you "wannabe" filmmakers who are afraid to take the first step, Failure is not the end of the world. At some point in our lives we have all come face to face with failure. Simply put, anyone who has been successful has also experienced failure. Great successes are molded out of the clay of past failures.

Why are you afraid to fail? You need it. If you say you can’t then you can’t. If you say you can then you can. What ever you believe of yourself is what I am going to agree with you right now. If you say you can’t make it because you come from a disadvantaged background, I agree totally with you, you will never make it. The truth is I believe in you. The point however is, do you believe in yourself? The world may believe in you, if you do not believe in yourself, you’d never make a Film. If you believe in yourself and no one else believes in you, you can move mountains and in time, the world will be forced to give you a hand and help propel you forward. ‘The believing’ has to start with you. Fact and truth are not the same thing. The fact is; you failed today. The truth is; you are not a failure. The fact that you are broke today does not mean that you are poor. My friend I will be frank with you; it will only take a minute to change your life. The moment you decide and move in the right direction is the moment your life changes.

Yes, you may not reach your destination in a minute but you can change the direction your life is heading in a moment; the moment of positive decision. Stop being afraid of failing. Know that the time for change is always now. You can’t change the kind of person you are later. There is no later. It’s always now or never. You can’t be kind later. And you can’t learn later. You may never learn. Now is the time. But even when you don’t succeed with starting your life over, keep this one Truth in mind: You can always start over again. The time to decide to change your destiny is Now!

We talk too much, day dream too much and act very little. It is time to decide and act. Get up I say and shake the dust of idleness, indecision and inactivity from your life. Turn your so call ‘bad situation’ around and take your place in the pride of life. Will you believe me if I told you, you CAN’T succeed at anything this year? Of course you will not. So why do you believe that lying voice inside of you telling you you can’t do that, you can’t get there, you can’t achieve that dream, you can't make films, you will fail, and all the other tanks of balderdash you have cramped your brain and mind with? SHUT THAT VOICE UP FOR GOD SAKE! Kill that thought now! Make failure a teacher, not an undertaker. Wake up my friend, go out there and fail, fail, fail, until you learn from your failures and know how to succeed. The length of time will be dependent on how fast you learn. Your time has come. Get up, get your gun of decision, load it with bullets of the four Cs; Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy, pull the trigger of action and sentence those lying voices telling you you can’t make it, to life in hell.

Embrace your failures; failure is life's greatest teacher. It is through facing and tackling them, that takes you one step farther from them and many steps towards success and the realization of your dreams!

Before I go, let me live this with you; ALWAYS SAY WHAT YOU WANT, NOT WHAT YOU HAVE. For example, stop saying I do not have money because that is what you will have. Say, I have money, money comes, I am rich…Say it, believe it and act. It is the repetition of a positive statement or declaration of the truth that leads to belief. Once that becomes a deep conviction, a dominating thought in your mind, things will begin to happen. Start by saying to yourself what you would love to be; and then do what you have to do to become that person. "I am a Filmmaker and make Bankable Films"
Drop a word and let me know how well you are doing.
I believe in you!
Solomon Mac-Auley

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