“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Abraham Lincoln “Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you.” – Zig Ziglar
Life Lessons on Failure
It was my senior year at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, WA and I was preparing to take that next big step in many young peoples lives. I was looking into attending college and had begun the process of checking out schools and determining what kind of options that I had in front of me. My grades were solid (about 3.4); I was very active in sports from football, wrestling & track. In addition, I was involved in Read More...
There is one thing that more than anything else, holds us back from achieving what we want and desire.
I am talking about fear. Fear, in its various forms, is the biggest killer of our quest for successes, so why is this?
In its simplest terms, fear is an emotion that we experience through a physical response. I’m sure you have felt this physical response before: your palms sweat, your heartbeat increases, your body temperature goes up. This reaction was very-very useful to us, millions of years ago, when the things that cause this reaction in us were out to kill us, such as large animals looking for dinner.
But now, that emotionally based fear response has become extremely unhealthy. I say this Read More...
This video shares the failures of famous people before they become great. You can overcome mistakes and you can be great…regardless of how many times you try and fail. These people did.
Fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to success. Failure doesn’t hold you back; it is the anticipation of failure that can sabotage your efforts to achieve your goals. Are you letting the fear of failure scare you into being overly cautious?
If you are….stop! Take the time to identify, define and analyze what you are afraid of.
Once you have identified your greatest fear, write out the answers to these questions:
1. How does this fear hold me back?
2. How does this fear help me?
3. What Read More...
Everyone hates to fail but what most people don’t realize is that failing is part of success. Anyone who has ever succeeded has failed many times. So, how do you overcome failure?
1. Learn from your mistakes and failures.
How did you learn to ride a bike? The short answer: you fell off 100 times. Every time you make a mistake or fail, learn as much as you can from it so that you are better prepared next time.
Action Step: Write down the top five things that you learned from your last mistake or failure.
Failure isn’t what holds people back, it is the fear of failing that causes people not to achieve their goals and dreams. In this short video, Brian Tracy explains a simple three part formula for getting past the fear of failure.
Here are some quotes to help you overcome the fear of failure:
“One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only Read More...
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Abraham Lincoln
