Over the past decade, I’ve spent a lot of time with incredible leaders, and I’ve noticed that they all invest in three core practices that allow them to thrive where others would dare not go. Here are the three methods through which great leaders overcome the fear of failure.
Without defining to ourselves what success or failure means, we will constantly be coming up against this wall of fear. But by looking behind the mask of success or failure, we allow ourselves to do is truly connect and find out what we really truly want and like and therefore who we REALLY are.
Achieving a goal with one try, rarely happens. It usually takes many more attempts before you can hit that bull’s-eye of success. If you’re feeling discouraged, these thoughts might push you forward.
Your 20s not going as planned? Perfect. You’re in great company. “Failing” in your twenties is a historical rite of a passage. Like crashing into a table or being sent out into the wilderness to kill a lion — naked, blindfolded, and wielding a dull stick.
The ideas that we have around failure are pretty false. As a society, we usually believe people fail whenever they don’t achieve a dream or whenever their dream doesn’t come into fruition when they say it will. But that’s not true.
The thing is, we all want to be successful. But many of us don’t want to go through the process of getting to it. Shortcuts are a waste of time. Like the old saying goes, there are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
No one can truly prepare you for your 20s, but this piece may help. Here’s some advice on being in your twenties and how to navigate the beginning stages of those not always pleasant little lessons. Cheers!
