The truth really can set you free. Once you are free, then what?! Think about this, if a movie was being made about your life, would you have the confidence to be the star in it or would you simply be a spectator? Milt Campbell, the 1956 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal winner said: “God created you to be a champion. You have been conditioned to be a spectator.” Being confident is to know that you know...and confidence will unlock the door to your success.
How do you know that you cannot do something that you have never attempted? Maybe you feel you have physical, intellectual or emotional barriers. Maybe someone told you that you couldn’t. Maybe someone told you not to even try. And maybe you believed them.
Think about the most successful people either in your life or in the world, alive or dead. Do you think they ever fell on their face? Do you think it kept them down? No matter what the activity or undertaking, there is always a “first time” When you were a baby or very small child, think of the things that you did without fear. Think of the things that you learned at an alarming rate. Did you know how to do these things before you attempted them? No, but you did it anyway. Did you mess up? Probably. You kept going until you did it unconsciously. If you have children in your life, you can watch it happen first hand.
So what happened? Why did we “all of a sudden” determine that there are things that we could not do so we don’t even try? Deep down inside of all of us is the ability to accomplish just about anything that we desire. However, our past experiences have somehow convinced us that we shouldn’t even attempt it for fear of failure, looking stupid or any number of false reasons. I call them false reasons because they are not real. They have been made up in our own head to keep us from doing things.
Our own self-preservation will stop at nothing to protect us from anything that might feel bad. So what if we looked at the results, regardless of the turnout, differently. Not as failure, but as continued education. When we were children learning how to walk or do something else, there was never any thought of failure. Just get up and do it again. What would happen if our children gave up after the first fall, or worse still, never tried in the first place?
Here’s my thought: J.F.D.I. Simple enough, huh? J.F.D.I. stands for Just Focus & Do It. (I inserted the word focus to keep this family friendly; you can use your own interpretation) It is none of your business what others think or feel about you or anything else. They have a right to think and feel whatever they want. You probably don’t want to know what they are REALLY thinking anyway.
If I told you that I would pay you $100, 000 for every new thing that you tried and succeeded you may think about it first and even give it a shot. How many times would you have to fail before you gave up? If I told you that you could make $5000 for every time you tried something new and failed, I believe you would jump right in and do it. That means if you tried something 20 times and “failed” you would make the same amount that you would if you “succeeded”. My point being that for every time you try something and “fail”, you now have knowledge of what NOT to do next time; ultimately getting you closer to success.
If Thomas Edison would have stopped after the first 50 “failures”, we would have been living in the dark for awhile longer. (I say that because someone else would have stepped up and invented the light bulb; they probably would have used Edison’s data to determine what not to do).
Henry Ford said, “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right” Don’t let your past determine your future. J.F.D.I.
Until next time…
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Mark Shearon has been a personal coach, author and successful entrepreneur for most of his life. He has taught courses in personal development around the world and worked with some of the top names in the industry including teachers from the movie “The Secret”. To start living the life of your dreams, go to http://www.PraxisLife.net. Personal growth has never been so attainable and affordable. You deserve a Praxis Life!
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