What Would You Do, If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
Life! Good, bad or indifferent, we are all participating in it. So, how’s it going for you? Do you feel like the captain at the helm, or rather like a feather on the breeze, pulled this way and that, at the mercy of whatever life throws at you?
The truth is, we are all, to some extent, subject to the changing nature of life and what it throws at us. We cannot control every aspect of our lives and if we believe we can then we are deluded. What we can control is our responses to situations and the degree to which we allow life’s events to determine how we live our lives.
‘Failure’ is a nasty word in our language that is used to label and demean and criticise the efforts of others (and ourselves). It is something that paralyses many of us and stops us from trying to achieve our hopes and dreams because of our fear of failure.
Like it or not, life is going to continue to change, move, evolve and happen around us. And the truth of the matter is that the only failure that exists is the failure to participate.
Life is filled with challenges. Many of us consider this to be a bad thing and yet challenge is what helps us to grow and experience and achieve things that we would not achieve otherwise. So are you allowing challenges and the fear of failure to paralyse you and keep you stuck? Or are you willing to think outside the square, get out of your comfort zone and find solutions to those challenges rather than blame them for your current state of affairs.
If we choose to blame events or other people for our circumstances we become victims to life. Blame puts us in a position of powerlessness and takes away our ability to find satisfactory solutions to problems. Life is not defined by the problems we have, but how we choose to meet those problems. The greatest achievements arise out of adversity.
So, as long as you continue to participate, YOU CANNOT FAIL. Sure, you’re going to make some mistakes along the way. That is all part of the process. You cannot succeed unless you make mistakes. Provided you learn from them, with each mistake you make, you are one step closer to success.
And sometimes success is just one more failure away. How will you know unless you keep trying? There is a terrific saying, “It is better to try and fail than to fail to try”.
So, what’s going to be better for you? To stay a victim, blaming everybody and everything else for your situation, and ultimately never have the opportunity to realise your dreams? Or to keep trying until you succeed and realise your dreams. Because that’s the truth of it. If you don’t give up, you are destined to succeed.
Wishing you success, freedom and happiness,
Marguerita Vorobioff
