This short message came from SUCCESS magazine for the month of May.
Maybe the biggest fear for business owners is the fear of failure. My advice is to put failure in perspective. Failure is one of life's best teachers: it instructs you on what to do, and what not to do the next time and the time after that. So don't fear failure. Embrace it and learn from it. To paraphrase Henry Ford, failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Or as is often said in high-tech circles today:
Fail fast. Fail often. Repeat.
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything."
- Vincent van Gogh
Next week I will be attending an all day seminar dealing with fear. There was an article in the Minneapolis newspaper a few days ago and the heading of this article said: SUCCESS MAY DEPEND ON BEING GOOD AT FAILURE.
Kind of an interesting title wouldn't you say? This seminar will be at the University of Minnesota and is open to anyone so I signed up. The newspaper article kind of grabbed my attention.
I know from experience that fear stops people from working harder at building this business. I have gone through that and I'm sure many of you have as well. I will probably be sending messages out in the next few weeks that deal with fear relating to this interesting seminar. Have a fearless weekend.
Enthusiastically,
Gary Burke
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