The only way to accomplish something you have never done is to try, fail, learn and repeat. Your success will be built on a pile of failures.
Jan 30, 2022
As an entrepreneur, one of the worst words you can imagine is...
FAILURE.
Failure is...
Unacceptable.
To be avoided at all costs.
The worst thing that can happen.
But just step away from the drama of the word for a moment.
Failure simply means:
- The lack of success.
- The omission of expected or required action.
So, when you don't get the results you want. Or when you don't do the things you need to do.
Not actually the end of the world, really.
The lack of success, doesn't mean that you will NEVER succeed.
Just that that attempt didn't work.
Or that you didn't take the required actions, THIS time.
When you don't succeed, you gain important information about what didn't work.
And what did.
Giving you information about what not to try the next time.
When you don't take the required action, you learn WHY you didn't take the action.
Giving you important information for what you need to take the action.
Failure is not an END RESULT.
Failure is invaluable information about what didn't work.
You can use it to inform what to try next.
Or you can use it to quit.
But there is nothing inherent in failure that means you SHOULD quit.
Honestly, if you knew how to accomplish your goal and were able to carry out every action to get there, it wouldn't be a goal.
It would be something you already do on the regular.
But since it is not, you NEED failure to help you learn how to get there.
Success is built on a pile of failure.
It's simply the math of trying things until you get the right combination.
Learn to use failure - the lack of results you want or the lack of action you know you need to take - as important information to guide your way to the next steps.
Instead of making it mean something terrible about yourself.
Failure is HUMAN.
And failure is the only way to succeed at a new thing.
So get to work failing.
This quarter, get at AT LEAST 25 worthy fails - fails at trying things you genuinely think will help you accomplish your goals.
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