This isn’t about failure, this isn’t about pressure, it’s about taking risks. Think about your life for a second. Do you think anyone close to you would tell you to take fewer risks? An extremely rare few can say yes to that question. Now, I am talking about good risks here. Don’t go out and risk a speeding ticket by driving 30 mph over the limit and don’t risk getting in trouble with your parents or the law by doing something against the rules.
No, from today on take a risk on something that you’re afraid to do. That fear of failure is the one thing that can hold us back from everything we want, don't let it stop you. Because if we can eliminate that fear, we are able to become one of the elite in this world. Michael Jordan has a long list of failures, yet, no matter where you travel to on this planet, the people there will know his name. His logo is one of the most widely recognized symbols in the world. You can’t call that failure. However, none of it would have happened if he didn’t take the risks he did.
Only for a brief moment in time will people remember the shots we missed and the mistakes we made. It is us who tend to remember our mistakes forever. Everyone else will remember when we succeed.
It can almost be called a rule that the size of the risks we take are in direct proportion to the size of our success. In other words, the bigger the risk, the more rewards we’ll receive.
I promise you that you will continuously become happier the more risks you take, because at the end of the day, people don’t regret the things they did, they regret the things they didn’t do.
No, from today on take a risk on something that you’re afraid to do. That fear of failure is the one thing that can hold us back from everything we want, don't let it stop you. Because if we can eliminate that fear, we are able to become one of the elite in this world. Michael Jordan has a long list of failures, yet, no matter where you travel to on this planet, the people there will know his name. His logo is one of the most widely recognized symbols in the world. You can’t call that failure. However, none of it would have happened if he didn’t take the risks he did.
Only for a brief moment in time will people remember the shots we missed and the mistakes we made. It is us who tend to remember our mistakes forever. Everyone else will remember when we succeed.
It can almost be called a rule that the size of the risks we take are in direct proportion to the size of our success. In other words, the bigger the risk, the more rewards we’ll receive.
I promise you that you will continuously become happier the more risks you take, because at the end of the day, people don’t regret the things they did, they regret the things they didn’t do.
I really like what you have done with this site. It's our self-criticisms that hold us back. When people learn to celebrate their successes without losing their true identity, then people become truly happy. And I have to agree that those successes only come to those who are willing to take the risks.
ReplyDelete“Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated. Without challenge people cannot reach their higher selves. Only if we are willing to walk over the edge can we become winners.”
You've put my thoughts into better words once again. I have played my failures over and over again in my mind wondering where I went wrong and how I can improve on them which, don't get me wrong, has taken me places I have never assumed possible, but only because I stressed it so much that I put myself down until things got better in other ways; the idea of risking it all and doing what you love despite the odds... definitely a motivating factor in my particular circumstances because you're right in that regret is more often found in things we don't do than in things we have done. if you never try you never know, right?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comments. Zach I like the quote you added there, one of my favorites covering risk comes from Alexander the Great. He said, "Fortune favors the bold," and as a man that discovered and conquered his entire world, he knows that to be the truth. And your right sscaffidi if you never try you will never know. Any topics you guys would like to see covered?
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