What If I Fall Flat On My Face?Written by Skye Thomas
I hope you do. Sounds awful, I know. But I really think best thing that can happen to you is for you to take a timid little leap and fall flat on your face. Then, I want to see you get back up, evaluate what you did wrong, and jump again. Keep on taking that leap of faith and learning from each and every mistake until you become used to jumping and used to falling. Then, you'll get over fear of falling and you'll finally begin to concentrate on flying. I want to see you run with everything you have and dive into your dreams with so much passion and fire that you forget all about possibility of failing. You will never find your wings until you do.The fear of failure is a cruel and stupid trick we pull on ourselves. The fact that fear of failure stops us from going after our goals and dreams means that we've already failed. I ask you this, who cares if you fail? Brilliant people fail every single day. Brave tenacious people fall flat on their faces and even get laughed at every single day. Here's an example of a perfectly nice person who has been known to fail, Christopher Reeves. How many mornings did he wake up telling himself that he was going to walk and then went to bed having failed yet again. Great guy, people love him. He's not going to let a little thing like yesterday's failure stop him from working hard again today. He's an inspiration to everyone who knows him. Who ever planted that stupid idea in our heads that we had to be successful at every single thing every single day in order to be likeable? What is failure anyway? In my eyes, Christopher Reeves is definitely not a failure. Nobody with that much tenacity, focus, and drive is failing. He is a real hero. You haven't failed until you've given up trying. As long as you're still taking leaps of faith, you're still a winner. Failure, like everything else, has its breaking point. At some point, if you hit at it in same spot over and over again it eventually breaks. How many light bulbs did Thomas Edison make before he got it right? Most people don't know answer to that because they don't care how many times he failed before he finally succeeded. He kept learning from each attempt, adapting to knew information, stayed course, held dream, and didn't let fear of failure nor fear of other people's ridicule stop him. One of reasons that I think we hear so many stories of immigrants coming to this country and making it big is because they were raised on stories of ability to create whatever kind of life you envision for yourself here. It's like all stories they grew hearing about how everyone has right to succeed in America overrides any underlying belief that they themselves could fail. They don't have a fear of failure so they just roll up their sleeves and get to work making their dreams come true. Sure they stumble and fall and learn a few lessons along way, but they certainly don't give up and quit.
| | 10 Ideas to Jump Start Your Self-ConfidenceWritten by Skye Thomas
To begin feeling that first spark of self-confidence within you, try as many of these as you like. It's important to enjoy yourself along way. Have fun!1. Correctly do 25 pushups, 50 sit-ups, or 1 cartwheel. 2. Learn all of words to a fun new song on radio and sing it aloud while driving down road. 3. Open up your cookbook to a completely new recipe and learn to cook it well. 4. Learn how to say, "I love you" in two different languages other than your own. 5. Teach someone how to read, how to fish, or how to play a musical instrument.
|
