In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
The interesting thing about fear of failure is that it’s just one form of the fear of change.
What people really fear is change.
Why?
Because our emotional brain references ancient programming from early Man that insists that change often leads to death.
But the threats that plagued early Man simply don’t exist anymore.
But the fear lives on . . . .
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. – Aristotle What we do makes us. The idea of “muscle-memory” applies to character and life skills as much as it does to playing tennis or baseball….
Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine Just as it’s easier to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one, character and trust is much, much, much harder to recover once it’s is lost than it is to maintain. Therefore, resolve to live in such a way: That you don’t…
I am a fan of the New York Football Giants. I am also a fan of excellent coaching and execution. As much as I enjoyed the Giants’ victories over the New England Patriots in Superbowls XLII and XLVI, I am also a fan of the Patriots. To say the Patriots under Bill Belichick (BB) are…
I was recently thinking about the nature of “success.” Of course, it’s a process and a journey and not a “completion” or a destination, but how can we better understand the process, the journey of “success?” Well, I came up with three phases, each marked by three key ideas: Responsibility, Maturity and Wisdom. * *…
If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. – Zig Ziglar If we’re not growing we’re dying (we’re dying anyway, but don’t let that get in my way here… ). When we seek and surmount challenges we get better. We become more confident and sure of ourselves. Isn’t that what we want? Is that…
Just wanted to share with you something that was shared with me: ***** Whenever you think that your needs are not met, you’re telling the story of a future. – Byron Katie Because the present moment meets all needs; it’s only the future that does not. That’s why my friend Rich Litvin always reminds us…