You need the courage and confidence to fail at times, in order to be a successful entrepreneur.
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Hi, this is Dr. TC North. Welcome to the DrTCNorth.com blog, speaking from my living room this evening with you. In my blog I always want to speak about different aspects of becoming a high performer from my studying high performers in the athletic and business worlds for the last twenty-five years.Tonight’s topic is a differentiator between high-performers performers and other performers – and that is: The courage to fail in order to succeed. Are you willing to fail in order to succeed?
When you think about Winter Olympians like downhill skiers, and lugers, and bobsledders, and the aerialist, the freestyle skiers – all these skiers – there are the three things that they have to face to do their job every day (would you be willing to do these, would you be willing to take these risks?):
1. One is you could die in a painful crash every day you showed up for work.
2. And if you don’t die, you’re pretty much guaranteed to have a serious injury if you stay in the job for a couple of years.
3. And if you survive physically, you will need to compete against the best in the world at your job, and be willing to fail on TV in front of millions of people.
That’s what these Olympians face. That takes profound courage, to face the potential of failure.
So I want you to think about it in your life: your business life, your personal life – any aspect of your life you want that you have a really important goal; something you say is really important to you. Are you willing to take the chance to fail at it – maybe many times – in order to succeed? Because if you can really accept failure as a possibility, but not buy into it, you get to put it off to the side and not focus on it. It’s when you are afraid of failing it sits right in front of you and it’s all you can see – and it controls your mind and it actually attracts you towards that failure.
If you accept it, and you can set it off to the side, then you can focus on your goal, focus on your success. Individual high-performers do this and it is a characteristic of high performance organizations and teams.
I’m Dr. TC North, signing off for now – and I’m in your corner.
