224: Why You Should Stop Avoiding Failure

This Episode’s Main Point: Avoiding failure can lead to avoiding success See going through failure as a step to succeeding   Helpful Resources/Links: Want To Reach Your Full Potential?3 Parts To Reaching Full Potential Follow me on Twitter:Nick Maizy More material:NickMaizy.com Show Notes: As weird as it may sound, you may need to pursue the exact thing you don’t want to end up getting what you really ‌want. I know. It’s weird. That’s why we need to talk about it in today’s episode. You want to succeed and achieve your goals, right?  Of course, you do. We all do. If we all want to succeed, then does that mean we avoid failure?  Nobody really wants to fail, right?    It’s easy to look at failure as the opposite of success. You either succeed or fail. It’s as if on one side you have failure way over here on the left and on the far other side way over on the right is success.  And in order to succeed you’ll have to go as far away from failure as possible and then you’ll be able to succeed. That makes logical sense. And unfortunately as you know life is not always logical. In fact, it’s not logical at all in this case.  Avoiding failure may take you straight to never achieving your goals and not being able to live the life you want.   How can avoiding failure stop you from achieving your goals?    Actively avoiding failure can: Stop you from experiencing opportunities Stop your learning Stop your growth Stop you from developing character Stop you from anticipating failure Stop you from giving your best Stop you from trying Stop you from helping others Stop you from getting the best from life   The further apart you see success and failure the more likely you won't experience your full potential. Think about that.   Now, imagine something with me. Imagine that you see success way over here on the left and the success of achieving your goals over here on the right. Now, bring the two together. Put the two right next to each other. See it in a way where you know you’ll have to go through failure in order to get to success. See failure as a step toward success.    Far too often, people, maybe at one time you too, see failure as something to avoid in order to succeed. But we can go through failure, benefit from it, and use that benefit to achieve what we want and live our best lives.    It’s okay to fail. Accept it. Learn from it. Give it your absolute best. And don’t give up. This is your life. Make it what you want.