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Imagine if your life was perfect and every endeavor ended in seamless success.

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What sort of person would you be today?

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Would you truly be who you are today? The truth is this.

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Failure teaches us more about ourselves and helps us build character better than success ever could.

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If you ever felt like you're failing in business, consider it a positive thing.

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Welcome to the Raquel show. This show is for entrepreneurs who want to play bigger in business and in life.

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And I just want to say, thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you for hanging out with me today for your shares, your DMs.

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It truly keeps our podcast going.

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And I was thinking about this word, failure.

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What is your relationship with failure?

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For the longest time, I used to be a perfectionist and didn't have a great relationship.

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with failure until I got older. It stems from my parents having very strict rules to pushing for straight A's all the time and I'll never forget

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the moment I came home with a report card and I had all A's and one B and my father says you could do better.

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And I probably took it incorrectly, or I probably took it wrong.

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But what if, just what if failure became your greatest gift in life?

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And throughout my journey of entrepreneurship, of building businesses in multiple markets and a team or mortgage businesses, or even

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building out our investment portfolio, it was the failures or the things that didn't go right that actually gave me the best lessons.

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if you've ever felt that nothing was going right for you, or you should be further along, or you should be at least, or almost halfway through

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your goals, or tracking to halfway through your goals, this episode, might be for you as I share the five lessons that I've learned from failure.

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You see, learning from failure and moving past it is another, especially when failure is fresh.

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For many, learning from failure takes time and perspective, but when we can look at our failures from a place of curiosity, they can be our greatest teachers.

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The first thing failure taught me was failure Builds character.

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There is a lesson to be learned from everything, including failing.

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Perhaps the greatest benefit from failure is actually strength.

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Think about it. Imagine if your life was perfect and every endeavor ended in seamless success.

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What sort of person would you be today?

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Would you truly be who you are today? The truth is this.

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Failure teaches us more about ourselves and helps us build character better than success ever could.

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If you ever felt like you're failing in business, consider it a positive thing.

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Number two is failure creates opportunity.

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How many times in your business have you failed at something only to discover?

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Another opportunity. There have been many, many, many different things that I've tried, whether it was being a solo agent, building a team,

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flipping a property, or building an expansion team, only to find out that there is no right or wrong way to build anything.

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It's when we actually fail or things don't work out, we discover another opportunity.

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And my experience today allows me to strategically help entrepreneurs double their business.

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and even 10x their business because I can see their roadmap.

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And that all comes from trying so many different things, failing at so many different things over the last two decades.

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Coaching gave me the opportunity to help impact more lives than just selling one home One client at a time.

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Number three is failure teaches resilience.

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When we fail, it can teach us resilience.

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The first time you've ever had a client, just think about this.

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No show or ghost you.

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You learned really quickly how to avoid it the next time.

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Every failure makes us stronger.

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It's through the discomfort and uncertainty of the epic fail that Juan will be better able to take on any of life's challenges as they come.

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resilience is something required of all successful people, and there's no better teacher of resilience than failure.

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And number four, failure raises our emotional thermostat.

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The more that we deal with failures, the more we are able to control our emotions and go towards solutions.

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failures can bring us a greater sense of emotional awareness.

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You may have felt sad or so many different emotions with failure for a long time, but over time, you learn how to handle it even better.

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Failing can teach you how to bounce back. It can help you discover You won't actually fall apart.

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It reminds you that you have what it takes to get right back up and go at it again.

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Recognizing when you're failing and picking yourself up is a key skill that you need to overcoming failure itself.

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Number five, last but not least, is failure teaches you appreciation because failure isn't the best feeling.

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You learn how to appreciate and be grateful for the experience and other things.

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The truth is, and here's the hard truth, is that failure is part of success.

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There's no way of getting around it.

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And after having the opportunity of meeting so many different successful, I mean very, very successful people, failure will happen.

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You just cannot give up.

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Keep pushing through my friends. Because success is just a string of failures strung together that you decided to push right through.

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Keep going because your impact in this world is far more important than any setback you'll ever face.

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I want to thank you all for listening to this very quick episode.

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I've been in a whirlwind of travels for conferences and my kiddos basketball.

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There have been plenty of times that I did not want to record as I was operating on very few hours of sleep yet.

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It's your shares, your messages that keep me going, and like my mentor said, You can suck, but you cannot skip.

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Thank you to this community for not allowing me to skip even on hard days and even on days that I fail and for listening to another quick episode.

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And until our next episode, don't forget to keep playing bigger, my friends.