#23

Lowball. 

How many times can you look back on situations in life and say, ‘man I wish I would have just known that I could have done better.’  I think often times we believe that we are going to fail before we ever give it a shot. We lowball ourselves.  What if we took failure out of the picture… what would be the first thing that you would do if you knew you could not fail? Whatever you just thought of is obviously a huge goal for yourself. So, what is holding you back? A fear of failing?  How about you try chasing your dreams with failure not being an option? Say to yourself, “I will not fail” and go into that situation full force knowing that there will be setbacks but not letting failure be an option.  Work so incredibly hard and do whatever it takes to succeed.  That may look like working 16-hour days to get started or putting your social life on the back-burner. If you want something bad enough, you will do whatever to get it… so how bad do you really want it? This is such a hard concept because nobody wants to work for what they want and if they fail getting back up again is not an option.  Often times as we grow up we are taught to think that failure is such a bad thing and that we have to avoid it at all costs.  Yes, failure stinks and nobody wants to have to endure that but so much is learned when we fail.  I guarantee you once you fail at something once or maybe twice you will not fail at it again. You will instead learn from it and learn ways to succeed in that area instead of fail.  Step out on that limb and if it breaks climb the tree to a sturdier one. 

Whatever it is that failure is keeping you from go get it.  There is no better time than right now.  But, promise me that if you do fail that you will not let that keep you down and that you will instead run with even greater persistence toward what you want to achieve.

#dominatehumbly