Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
How many times has the fear of losing, thwarted your desire to take your best shot at something?
We are so programmed that any kind of fear is going to give us such a negative outcome, that in many cases, we are not even likely to take our best shot.
This can be exemplified in tiny incidents such as communicating with someone whom you are attracted to, applying for your dream job, trying out for a team or similar organization, considering starting a business, launching a new product and countless other examples.
Any of these come with their own specific degree of potential trepidation, based entirely upon imaginary outcomes. These imagined outcomes are the internal bogeyman that scare us into submission.
Whom are we really submitting to, other than ourselves, if we do not make the effort?
We are highly likely to find our way into one or many of these circumstances in life. When this happens, we are all the more trepidatious, because the internal dialogue that we are facing continues to reinforce the possibility, or even worse, the probability, of a negative outcome.
What about the alternate scenario in which we get myopically focused on the positive outcome and the exhilaration of having triumphed over whatever imaginary fear lies in front of us?
When we entertain the thoughts of the thrill and exhilaration that such a scenario could potentially deliver, are we not all the more potentially rich for recognizing how and/or why we are likely to succeed, and therefore earn the rewards of such a success?
These variables control so many aspects of our lives, and leave us continuously calculating the upside versus the downside, weighing the potential outcome, and then determining whether or not we would be willing to take our very best shot.
And, as a direct result, some of the circumstances dictate that we will give a measured response, but not give the whole-hearted effort that we could have given, if we were certain in advance that we would succeed.
I firmly believe that if you are going to make your efforts in life, there is only one kind of effort to make and that is the one that leverages everything in your arsenal, and then some.
Only then will you ultimately find your way to greatness, and if you hit a few failures along the way, keep your heart and your ego in the right place, and recognize that if you continue to fail forward, they are really not failures at all, but rather steppingstones to your greatest success.
Imagine what you could possibly accomplish if you knew for certain that you would not fail… Then make it so.
Happy Friday!
Brian Weiner 