Fear of Failure

Fear of Failure

“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” — Gena Showalter

Have you ever felt lost? Have you experienced that feeling of emptiness, like something is missing? To admit we feel “lost” is admitting that we are looking for something. You might think you’d know if you were lost but would you know if you never had a destination in mind? 

Many of us who have lost our way in life and are drifting blindly because we never developed a roadmap to begin with. We are afraid to create that path because we do not want to fail.

We fear failure. How can you fail if you don’t create goals to reach? That fear of failing is the reason some of us delay creating goals. Instead of letting the fear of failure stop us, we should use it to start anew. 

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”– Confucius 

Failure is just a delay, it is not a reason to give up. It is a temporary detour, and should not be a dead end. The only way to avoid failure is to not try at all. 

An integral aspect of success is learning from failure and using that knowledge to get it right the next time. Start again now. Do not give up. Dare to fail big now.

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy