I’ve never been successful
at anything
on the first try.
I’m lucky that way.
Why am I lucky?
I learned at a young age
it would take me
multiple tries
to get anything right.
Some of my buddies,
the folks with
horseshoes up their a$$,
got lucky
often
on the first try.
They ‘learned’
to put a lot of emphasis
on that first attempt.
If they didn’t succeed,
they figured they would
never succeed.
And they quit trying.
The thing is…
if you have a BIG goal,
the odds of getting lucky
on the first attempt
at all the tasks it involves
is very, very low.
The quit after the first attempt
folks
don’t tend to achieve
anything big.
“What to do
in the face of failure?
What happens
when you’ve done your best
and it still doesn’t
get the review,
close the sale
or
win the race?
One approach is
to embrace the easy path
of
“did my best” = “failure”
therefore,
I should give up
or simply accept mediocrity.
The other,
the growth mindset,
is to realize that
while you did your best,
it’s not your best forever,
it’s just
what you’ve done so far.
And that
while you haven’t created
what you set out to create,
the key word,
the one you have to
remind yourself of daily,
is
yet.”
Your big goals
deserve multiple attempts
and more investment in growth.
If you’re not successful now,
learn another technique/tactic
and try again.