Most of us have exactly what it takes to start a business, achieve our goals or embark on any important journey in our lives, yet we find it difficult to take the first step simply because of one thing – fear of failure.
We are all afraid of failure, but does it mean we have to stop trying?
Taking action can be the most difficult step and can appear to be paralysing from time to time, but remember there is no success without failure. Everyone who is successful will tell you about the many hurdles they had to jump for them to get to where they are.
Success in life or business doesn’t happen until you take that very first step towards reaching your goal. As Don Shula once stated, “the start is what stops most people”. Well, fear of failure at the starting point contributes largely towards many people not taking off at all when they have the potential to reach for the stars.
Remember that everything you want is on the other side of failure.
It may seem like failure tends to be more public than success, hence we try to avoid it and question ourselves every time we have new ideas. But the simple truth is – no great success was ever achieved without failure.
Instead of seeing failure as a measure of your capability, rather see it as a learning curve. The renowned Mike Lipkin once unpacked the acronym FAIL as standing for ‘First Action In Learning’. So pick up your lesson and have the second attempt in being better equipped.
Go out there and use that knowledge that you have inside of you. That small business idea you have, act on it. Most of us have exactly what we need to get to our goals, but we make excuses not to even get started.
Living a successful life is all about experimenting and trying new things. The more things you try, the closer you will get to true success.
Just to borrow from Robert F. Kennedy, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
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