Everyone fears failure. How can people use fear to create success?
Fear is an emotion, and not all emotions are real. Fear stands for False Emotion Appearing Real.
When our children are learning to walk, if they fail a couple of times, do we let them give up? No! We keep at it until they learn. Unfortunately, as adults we lose that most precious gift—the gift of walking. We stop walking toward what we want and just exist in life.
If you want to succeed in anything you endeavor in life, you have to be willing to fail at it first. You can’t succeed without failing.
We’re conditioned from the time we’re children that failing is bad, and as soon as we have learned to link failure to something negative, we will spend the rest of our lives avoiding failure.
The top 5% of people fear failure too. The difference is that they’re willing to do the things that the other 95% isn’t willing to do in order to get what the 95% will never achieve in life. It is important to know that the Great Leaders of our time also faced fear, but the difference is they faced their fears head on.
It’s important to distinguish between little failures along the way and ultimate failure in life. Ultimate failure is the result of not following through, not making that call, not reading that book, not taking the time with your kids, not saying I love you, not giving 100%.
Success is always on the other side of failure.
