We’re all afraid of failure. Sometimes so afraid it stops us even trying.
We let our imagination run to that place of disappointment, shame, embarrassment, that what we set out to do, we failed at.
I get it. I’ve been afraid too. You know what? I regret more every single one of those times I let fear win and I didn’t take the chance.
It’s easy to stay where you are, even if you don’t particularly like it. You may hate your body, you may lack confidence, you may wish you were making positive changes.
Yet…
Yet the thought of failure, the fear, is so great, it seems safer not to try.
Your comfort, your fear, is a prison.
You may fail. But what if you succeed?
Even if you fail, you are not a failure, you’ve just found a way that doesn’t work for you.
Thomas Edison famously said on his attempts to create the light bulb “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
No one this Edison is a failure. We remember his success, although he failed more than he succeeded.
Failure is a part of learning, it gives you lessons and allows you to attempt again, and again, until you do succeed.
What would you like to do?
Why aren’t you doing it? Be honest.
if it seems too big, too scary, find someone that can help you, guide you, support you. A mentor a coach.
I’ll leave you with the words of Teddy Roosevelt…
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Don’t let life and opportunity pass you by. Burn bright. You deserve it.
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