How many of us never leave our comfort zone...never chancing to be hurt, to fail, or...if I can be crazy for moment....to succeed! Think about all the successes you have had in your life and ask yourself this, which are the most gratifying? I would be willing to bet that the ones that you either had to work for the most or the ones where you failed first, once or many times, are the ones that are the most gratifying, the ones you are the most proud of, the ones that are the most fulfilling. Eleanor Roosevelt was right on when she encouraged people to live life, and said "to taste experience to the utmost". There is no success without failure. But what is failure? Thomas Edison said that "many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." He also said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
There is no success without failure. If you are afraid to fail, maybe you could try on Thomas Edison's viewpoint that it is not failure, it is experience. And our former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, suggested that you "reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." These are two very notably successful people in our history. Go ahead and follow their lead. Leave your comfort zone from time to time. You just might enjoy it.
Enjoy life.
Coach Randal Suozzo, CPC, ELI-MP
www.coachsuozzo.com
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And here is a story of one person's journey in pursuit of 100 days of failures taken from Sherold Barr's most recent blog...
Surprising Lessons From 100 Days of Rejection:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWyseydTkQ
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