Posts Tagged ‘failure’
Lose to win
Those who fail the most win. There are a few caveats: You must learn from each failure. You must not fail the same way repeatedly. You must not fail in a way that kills you (obviously), bankrupts you, or knocks you out of whatever game you are playing. If you mind the caveats, you fail,…
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Not good enough
If you think that you’re not good enough, I imagine you’re also holding yourself back from making mistakes. Hiding. Anyone who became good enough, practiced being “not good” often enough to learn what better felt like. Go.
Read MoreThe impossible
Do things that might not work. Take on challenges that you may fail. Start a journey that will force you out of your comfort zone. Set a goal that scares you a little. One that will require you to accomplish what you currently think is impossible. This is artistry. When you do this, you learn…
Read MoreThe effort behind the effortlessness
We all know someone who seems to make healthy decisions without a second thought. Even when inconvenienced they rise to the occasion with composure. They mentally massage menus to coax out meals that match their mission. They fit in the time to stay fit. They set goals, achieve them, and make it look easy. How…
Read MoreOpen water swimming
When you 1st learn to swim in open water, you have to lift your head up to look for your marker every couple of strokes. If you don’t you will end up swimming in a huge “S” and significantly increasing the distance that you swim. While looking up to find your mark saves on distance,…
Read MoreThe vision bucket
Having a vision is like having a really big bucket. It is the biggest bucket that life’s other buckets are placed within. If a smaller bucket like a career, relationship, or hobby is being filled with the resources of time, energy, focus, and money it is most effective and efficient for the filling of that…
Read MoreI hope you fail.
You’re trying something new. Something healthier. Something you hope makes your life better or improves the lives of others. Since this is new, you will fail at some point, I hope. THE FAILURE is the sign that you’re doing something right!!! It’s a milestone that you must achieve if you are truly pushing yourself beyond…
Read MoreThe fun in failure
Remember those times when failing was fun? You tried to do a handstand for the first time and didn’t kick high enough. Then you tried again and kicked up so hard you flew over the other way landing on your back! You failed. Then you laughed. You were at a team building workshop. You and…
Read MoreMake new mistakes
If you remain teachable, mistakes are like seeds you plant in the soil of your subconscious that emerge later in life as lessons learned. With this in mind, the only real mistakes made are the ones we repeat after having learned the lesson previously. When you knowingly sabotage yourself by deciding to do what you…
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