"Failure is not an option, it's an absolute complete necessity because when you've stopped failing you've stopped taking risks, and you will stop growing and you will stop taking ground."
The paradox of the fear of failure: "The fear of failure drives you to stop taking risks, but not taking risks ultimately leads to failure."
In spiritual terms: "To lead without faith, it's impossible to please God. If I am so consumed with the fear of failure, that I will try to lead without faith, and without faith it's impossible to please God."
In the parable of the talents, the one who buried his, effectively said, "I was afraid, so I didn't take the risk."
"The path to your greatest potential is often straight through your greatest fear."
4 Principles:
- We learn more through failing than through succeeding.
- "Never ever waste a failure!"
- "If you haven't failed recently you're playing it way too safe."
- "We could not know and do what we do today had we not learned from the mistakes that we made. Some people hesitate to try because ... it may not work, and sometimes it needs to not work so you can learn what would work the very next time."
- If you're not failing every now and then, you're playing it way too safe!
- When is the last time you failed?
- When is the last time you launched an idea?
- Ask this on annual reviews: Where did you fail this year?
- Create a culture of experimentation, trying new things.
- There might be something you failed at before and it's time to try it again.
- "The antidote to the fear of failure is not success, ...it's small doses of failure."
- When you do fail, and you're tempted to feel devastated...remember this...
- Don't personalize and internalize a failure, learn from it.
- Don't blame yourself for the declines, or one day you'll take credit for the increase.
- "A failure may be exactly what you need so that you can grow as the leader you're supposed to be."
- Shake it off... Step on up...
- If you're not dead, God's got more for you to do.
- You are not what you did...just shake it on off and step up.
- "I wonder how many people have a burden and could actually impact this world, but never ever try because they're afraid to fail. What are you supposed to do?" Peter...for a moment, walked on water, but you have to get out of the boat.
- Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- When I don't feel a little bit of that fear, that's when I get really afraid, because I've stopped leading aggressively and stopped believing and trying things that take faith.
"I pray you fail. I pray you fail often. I pray you fail big. I pray you learn. I pray you adjust. I pray you do what others believe cannot be done and that you succeed for the glory of God and His kingdom."
1 comment:
My times of biggest growth always come after failure. Choosing to recover well from failure is key.
I love the idea of asking my team how they failed when I have their reviews next month!
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