Remind yourself that you are good enough. Leo Babauta suggests that not believing we are good enough rests at the heart of fearing failure. Failures serve as proof of this greatest fear, causing us to want to withdraw and not try again for fear of being further exposed as inadequate and incapable. However, this fear is not founded in reality; nobody is perfect and everyone will err at various points in life. The real difference between people who become successful and overcome failure and those who do not comes down to how you manage failure and how you view its impact on you. Feeling inadequate is a commonplace human feeling that even very public, very successful people feel but they don't let it keep them down. You are good enough; all you need is to give yourself the go-ahead to keep trying.
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
George Burns
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
Tony Robbins“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
George Edward Woodberry“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
Johnny Cash“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
Denis Waitley“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Vincent van Gogh“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”
Nikki Giovanni“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”
Napoleon Hill“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Elbert Hubbard“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
James A. Froude“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
Ambrose Bierce“Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”
Lily Tomlin“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Virgil Thomson“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Steve Jobs“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”
Mia Hamm“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
Andre Gide
It's my pleasure to see your post there. I am sure your idea is working best for me. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteSmall Business Team Coaching