Ep. #141: Be Willing to Fail and Learn from Your Mistakes

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Someone recently told me that her coach asked her coaching group how many times they were going to fail. They were supposed to choose a number.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does that seem odd to you? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I found the idea intriguing. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t try hard enough to succeed. Then your failure will be caused by your own misguided beliefs.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why do we think of failure as such a horrible thing? It isn’t. It just means things didn’t go the way you hoped or expected. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet so many people avoid achieving their dreams because they’re too afraid to fail along the way. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you think of failure as something that happens to you that’s outside of your control?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you blame your failures or mistakes on something or someone?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or do you react by feeling bad about yourself, thinking that you’re a loser and labeling yourself as a failure?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to learn why having a healthy approach to failure and learning from your mistakes is a fundamental component of being your best self.</span></p>