It’s no secret that experts consider Christiano Ronaldo to be the best footballer on the planet. It’s also no secret that Christiano did not become a mega superstar over night.
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player in a small Madeira team and he had an early youngster move to Sporting Clube de Portugal. As a winger in Sporting, he was spotted by Manchester United manager sir Alex Ferguson who signed him for £12.24 million in 2003.
Although in 2004 Ronaldo won the FA Cup, his first Man Utd club honor, he failed. That season Manchester neither won the Premier League nor qualified for UEFA Final 16 in the EUFA Champions League.
It was a disaster. Being a fan of Man Utd since the age of 9, partially, I blame Ronaldo’s horrible performance that season.
I distinctly remember Man Utd’s 6th and final game in the UEFA group stage against S.L. Benfica when Manchester drew and for the first time in 36 years failed to qualify for Europe’s best 16.
Christiano’s horrible performance that season reminds me of similar experiences we undergo as internet marketers.
I am a big fan of failure. I see failure as necessary experiences we must undergo in order to grow and learn new, important and profitable lessons. Often, we learn our most important life lessons only after or during our most horrid failures.
Man Utd’s failure to qualify for Europe’s final 16 was Ronaldo’s wake up call to action. I believe that Ronaldo understood that he became too high minded too early in his career.
Next season unveiled a different Christiano. Ronaldo matured into a different kind of footballer. During the summer break he worked hard and it showed early in the season.
In 2005 Red Devils claimed the Premier League and UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo was to blame and nobody could deny that. Since 2005 Ronaldo worked and developed to become what he is today-a $132 million dollar player.
If you’ve experienced hard failures during your internet marketing career, be sure that you’re on the right path.
Failure is life trying to tell you that you’re doing something wrong. It’s trying to redirect you in the direction of success. If When you fail, don’t be sad or angry, simply analyze what you’ve done, try to figure out what’s wrong and fix it.
If more work is needed-do it. If re-design is needed-do it. If admitting that you were wrong and changing course is needed-do it. Do whatever it takes! That’s how the footballers do it and you should too!
Question to ask yourself:
“What do you do when you fail?”
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