“If failure is not an option, then neither is success.”
Seth Godin
If you aren’t willing to fail, you aren’t pushing far and hard enough. How will you ever know how far you can go if you don’t push the envelope and fail every once in a while…
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You have to be all in…
“Leadership on the other hand is about creating change that you believe in.”
Seth Godin
Before anyone else can buy into your leadership you have to be completely bought in and sold on what it is you are seeking to change. If you don’t believe in it fully and passionately then those you are seeking to influence won’t either. You can’t “fake it till you make it” when it comes to creating change. You have to believe in it with all your heart and soul.
If you don’t then everyone will know and you’ll find yourself not leading anyone at all.
What state do you choose?
“Either you defend the status quo or invent the future.”
Seth Godin
I love this sentiment. It’s a very clear demarcation point on how you choose to live your life. You are either focused on what was, or what will be. There is no in between or middle ground.
Personally I have always tried to live by an ethos of “relentless discontent with the status quo.” That spirit has driven me my entire life. Granted it hasn’t always led to the most optimum decisions or outcomes, yet I would rather live forward with anticipation of a better tomorrow than under a constant state of fear that my world is going to be disrupted. Because guess what? It is. Never has that been more apparent than right now…
So one can either live in a state of fear, or in a state of creativity. I choose the latter.
Face your fears…
“Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.”
Seth Godin
What are the things that scare you? Do you run from them? Have your fears paralyzed you or motivated you?
If you don’t face your fears, they will own you. Do you want fear to control you? Or would you rather face the fear and win?
Sometimes you just need to build some momentum. Face a fear, and win. Then do it again. And again. And again…
Scared is good!
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
Seth Godin
What really scares you? I know at one time in my life I HATED public speaking. I am not alone in having had that phobia, it is a common fear. I heard once that people actually ranked public speaking ahead of dying as something they were afraid of! Today speaking still makes my pulse race and makes my palms sweat a bit. I love that it scares me. It makes me push harder, prepare harder, think through what I want to say and how I want to say it. If it didn’t scare me, I don’t believe I could do my audience justice and make it worth their time and attention to listen to something I am saying.
I no longer hate speaking, in fact, I love it, but it still scares me. But I wouldn’t trade away the feeling I get, and the benefits I believe come that from, being scared. Having a fear that I must overcome forces me to be better, to grow and improve. Besides, how do you know you are alive if you aren’t scared on occasion?
Be afraid…
“If it scares you it might be a good thing to try.”
Seth Godin
Fear can either motivate or paralyze. How do you respond to what scares you? Do you lean in or lean back?
If we never try anything that stretches us past the point of fear we could never achieve to the level of our capability. How can you know what you are capable of if you don’t stretch?