“A Failure is Not Final” This is Something to Think About 08.28.25
Something to Think About
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“A Failure is Not Final”
Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About”
Air Date Thursday, August 28, 2025
Advances and setbacks are events that define life. How we handle life’s events is a matter of perspective.
Advances are readily accepted; failure can destroy us if we let it.
Those who have achieved the most have experienced the most failures. But they learned to overcome failures. They know you can’t avoid failures.
Walt Disney’s life story is a valuable lesson on failure. Walt had setbacks: his first studio went bankrupt, and he lost the rights to a successful character. Although the films Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia were all successful, the Movie Bambi lost a lot of money. Three hundred banks turned him down for financing to build Disneyland. He had a nervous breakdown after creating Mickey Mouse.
Though he didn’t live to see Disney World’s opening, his legacy is that failure never defeated him.
Failure is never final; it’s just an event.
Bill Bunkley is a 19-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs weekdays from 3 to 6 pm across central Florida. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 29 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is today a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. His wife is Toni, son is Zac, and they attend Idlewild Baptist Church.
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