The Prosperity Approach

Why Failure Is a Good Thing


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Are you trying to avoid failure at all costs? 

Most people (especially women) don't actually do anything to be successful because the dreaded F word literally paralyzes them. That’s how fatal meaning they are giving to failure.

During the ten years of my work with clients, I’ve been getting the same answer when I ask them what failure means to them. Every single time. If they try something big and fail in a spectacular way, for them, it means:

- they're not good enough

- they're not lovable

- they'll be abandoned

- they'll die alone

Interestingly, we get terrified of success too. My clients have pretty similar answers when we talk about fear of success. Although we don’t start with, I'm not enough, but with, I think I'm better than… somehow we come to: Somebody else will feel threatened and destroy me.

And here we go again: Therefore, I will lose everything I have, which means:

- I'm not worthy

- I'm not deserving

- I'm not enough

- I'm not lovable

- I will die alone

Isn’t it really fascinating how the programs we run and all of the societal conditioning we have had over thousands of years make us so terribly afraid of failure? 

So, can we change the meaning of failure? What do you do when you fail? Is it possible to turn your mistakes into stepping stones for success?

Of course, the answer is YES to all these questions.

Tune in for this episode as I’m explaining how to overcome the fear of failure and what to do when you make mistakes.

Let’s jump in!

Key Takeaways:

- Intro (00:00)

- What do you do when you make a mistake? (01:03)

- I was so terrified of failure (02:40)

- Both success and failure are feedback (03:49)

- I gave myself permission to make mistakes (04:37)

- Every failure contains a little bit of success (06:24)

- Big experiment - dating 80 guys in 4 years (07:52)

- Set perfectionism aside (09:28) 

Additional resources:

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