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 . . . .
We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all life’s upheavals. – Dodinsky When the winds of change and challenge blow, remember you are the tree. The strong, flexible tree, able to bend and not break, to both sway with…
It’s merely a component of power. Knowledge is no more power than flour is a cake. Flour, with other specific ingredients, combined in a specific order and manner and prepared in a particular way, results in a cake. So it is with knowledge. When you combine knowledge with other key ingredients, such as awareness, intention…
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….
I saw this in a recent post from Seth Godin: And building a fortress cripples us. It turns people into spies and informants. And spies and informants are so busy being afraid that they fail to actually build anything of value. Not to mention that doing the right thing, doing it in a way we’re…
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson Results are important, no doubt. But the measure of our lives, and their direction can’t always be discerned at the end of each day, or week, or month. I want you to be careful with my…
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. – Emerson Yes, I am riffing off the recent political meme in the post title. (“Never let a crisis go to waste.” (Attributed, I believe, to Rahm Emanuel).) That aside, Emerson’s words are an extremely valuable reminder. We ignore “failures” and “calamities” at our peril. Every…