Fail Successfully

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Life offers us a set of choices every single day and when you 'zoom out' you will begin to see that life is nothing but a series of decisions and the quality of your life depends intrinsically on the outcome of those choices.

We can either get out of bed when we wake up, or stay in bed for a little while longer, we can tell the person we are interested in that we are interested in them or not, we can clean our home now, or we can put it off. These are all examples of basic everyday choices that everyone on this planet considers, intelligence and status have little 'say' in the quality of your life. (I am in no way saying that intelligence and status do not play a role in the quality of your life, I am merely highlighting the importance of the seemingly unimportant factors that play a role in our day to day life).

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I want you to imagine something—picture two people. The first person was born into an ultra-high class family and was afforded the best in life: World-class education, world-class health care, world-class amenities and the luxuries that most of us can only dream of— now, imagine yourself. (This exercise is purely for reflective purposes, never compare yourself to someone else. Compare yourself to the person you were yesterday). You are content with what you have, somethings in your home are in disrepair, but you have a roof over your head, a pillow to lay that head every night and food in the pantry and the fridge. Now, this affluent individual whom you have captured in your mind's eye is lazy, demotivated, and nihilistic. Their approach to life is dejection and contempt; he/she wants things to come to him/her because that is how it has always been.

Now, imagine yourself. Average intellect/IQ, average grades, average socioeconomic status. Average life. The only difference is this: You wake up in the morning intending to tackle every single option/choice facing you with determination and enthusiasm. Your 'mere' attitude will yield success. You will form healthier relationships with your mind, body, family, spirituality and friends and even the people you come into contact with daily, all because you chose to do so. Everything happens up there (mind) before it manifests itself in the world around you.

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The fear of failure that you will experience after having exerted the effort needed to perform a task is irrational. The only way failure is guaranteed is not to try—question your rationality.

'Failure' has negative connotations in that no one wants to fail, but; you should never look at failure as a negative in the first place. Failure is always an opportunity for growth. Choose to shift your perspective from one of negativity to positivity. Two 'negatives' will always equal a negative—Algebra ting.

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The most exceptional people in the world continually harp on about 'failure'. Why? They understand the fear that we all contend with, and they are telling you that it is ok to 'fail'. There is nothing wrong with failure! Try and fail every day, so the next day you succeed! You cannot expect to go through life not having failed anything, can you? Fail so that you may succeed.