… is what i realized I had this morning. A friend of mine mentioned one his greatest fears in life. Fear of failure. Yep. Failure.
I guess that is what I have been struggling with the most recently. In every area of my life actually: mainly in business, but even in relationships.
I’ve seen my parents in various businesses for as long as I can remember. Some lasted a while while others fizzled out and they caught another ‘business bug’ and started up something new. I have seen ups and downs. I seen profits and I have seen losses. I have seen some businesses tank while a few have soared.
Maybe this goliath is evident because of what I have seen over the years.
While talking to my friend I began to realize how much this is crippling my mind in business and other areas. Granted I want to step out and do more but these mindsets stop me. I began to resolve in my own heart to not allow these things to bother me in Business or even in relationships.
The whole topic of relationships is another thing. I dont even know if I want to add anything here about it but yeah. I guess I get intimidated because of the hurts in the past. That is another area that I want to conquer in my life. I guess I gotta work on the area of trust. That is for a whole other post.
If anything in my own life I began to realize that I don’t really believe or even trust in myself and that is one of the goliath’s that stand in my way of successes. I have to change that. I have to step out more. I have to take more risks. I have to take more chances. I have to believe. I have to heal…
YET….
I am so afraid. LOL. But you know one of the best things about it is the unknown. Whats the worst that can happen? I Fail Forward? I can only learn from my mistakes right?
Here is a paragraph out of John C. Maxwell’s book, Failing Forward:
“Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure. For example, Wolfgang Mozart, one of the geniuses of musical composition, was told by Emperor Ferdinand that his opera The Marriage of Figaro was ‘far too noisy’ and contained ‘far too many notes.’ Artist Vincent van Gogh, whose paintings now set records for the sums they bring at auction, sold only one painting in his lifetime. Thomas Edison, the most prolific inventor in history, was considered unteachable as a youngster. And Albert Einstein, the greatest thinker of our time, was told by a Munich schoolmaster that he would “never amount to much.
“I think it’s safe to say that all great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that, they persevere. In the face of adversity, rejection, and failings, they continue believing in themselves and refuse to consider themselves failures.”
I read on a blog once…
Many failures are merely mistakes and everyone makes mistakes. Those who achieve success are those who persevere after mistakes. As a leader, it is particularly important to understand this. You don’t cover up mistakes, you acknowledge, learn from, and move past mistakes.
Amen.
Amen.
and
Amen.
