I am sitting on a beach(沙滩) on this hot summer day and watching two children, a boy and a girl, playing in the sand. They are working hard at building a sandcastle(沙堡). Just when they are successful(成功的), a big wave(波浪) comes along and washes it away.

I think the children may cry because all their hard work turns to nothing, but they surprise me. They run away from the water, hand in hand, and sit down to build another one.

I learn a lot from them. We can’t always be successful. Being sad doesn’t do any good. What we need to do is start again, hand in hand with our friends.

Success does not belong to a select group of individuals (个人). Success belongs to those who are willing to go after it and try their best to do what they have to do. Here are some useful practical ways for you if you want to be a success.

Desire. Desire is the strong wish to achieve a goal. Without desire, you have nothing. Before you can run with desire, your goal must be plain, clear, and it must also be exciting.

Show up. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. You can’t have a best seller, if you have never written a book. You can’t get your dream job, if you’re afraid to turn in an application. Showing up doesn’t guarantee (保证) success, but if you don’t show up, you won’t succeed.

Fail. Unless you’re willing to have a try, fail unhappily, and have another try, success won’t happen.

To have success, you have to do things the right way, but often the only way to do something right is to first fail at it. As Thomas J. Watson said, a simple formula (公式) for success is to double your rate of failure (失败). So welcome failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.

Work harder. Everyone runs, but everyone is not willing to run for an hour every day. Success is not about doing what the common person can’t do. It’s about doing what the common person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it’s about creating habits that the common person is unwilling to create. It’s the habit of doing things with excellence that causes success.

Enjoy the journey. Success is a journey, not a destination (终点). Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain happy marriage. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey.

Someone once said, “Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.” You have to change, you will change, you will succeed.

As we all know, “Failure is the mother of success.” 【小题1】

Whoever you are, you are sure to meet trouble in your life. As the time goes by, the problems that we meet will become more and more, such as the failures in study, life or friendship. But how to deal with them if we meet failures? 【小题2】 Last year, I failed in a month exam, I was very worried, so I even thought that I would give up. Some days later, my mother knew it, she said to me with a smile, “ 【小题3】 Do you remember that you succeeded last time, you will get good grades next time if you face failure bravely.” I thought about those words for a long time. Finally, I understood that I should regard the problems as the challenges. 【小题4】

【小题5】 Everybody will have failure. If there is no failure, there will not be chances to show an achievement. The person who fails many times will also have some valuable treasures. In fact, we should study from those persons who have faced failures bravely. Failure doesn’t mean you have nothing. It can bring you some experience.

This is the failure, please value failure bravely.